FCC Seeks Comment on Waiver Request by North Carolina State Highway Patrol
The FCC Public Safety Bureau sought comment Monday on a request by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) to use extra 800 MHz channels for its communications. The patrol wants to use two 800 MHz specialized mobile radio pool…
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channels, 856.5375 and 859.0375 MHz, and associated mobile units on the mobile transmit side of the SMR channel pairs, at 811.5375 and 814.0375 MHz. Comments are due Sept. 12, replies Sept. 27. In its waiver request, NCSHP “proposes to operate two trunked 800 MHz channel pairs to supplement and enhance ‘limited coverage’ areas of Surry County,” the bureau said: “NCSHP indicates that ‘[d]ue to the lack of Public Safety Spectrum and proximity of several other 800 MHz users, it is not possible for the State Highway Patrol to provide adequate coverage for Emergency Responder radio systems from frequencies within the 800 MHz Public Safety allocation.’”