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Compliance Request Report

  

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PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE

On June 15, 1998, APCO signed a Memo of Understanding (MOU) with the FCC’s Compliance and Information Bureau (CIB), in conjunction with the FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau aimed at improving the Commission’s compliance and enforcement processes involving public safety radio services.

The agreement’s main objective is to facilitate the Commission’s certified Frequency Advisory Committee’s (FAC) work in concert with CIB to protect the technical and regulatory integrity of radio communications. Under the agreement, APCO will follow an FCC technical and administrative standard to collect all information relevant to process a compliance or interference matter. This allows the FCC to rely on APCO and other public safety coordinators to research and verify the substance of a complaint. APCO will only refer a matter to the Commission when an interference problem cannot be resolved. The MOU supports the Commission’s mandates under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and will conserve the Commission’s resources that it would otherwise expend in the research and verification of a licensee-filed complaint.

Pursuant to FCC Rule 90.173(b), all applicants and licensees shall cooperate in the selection and use of frequencies in order to reduce interference and make the most effective use of the authorized facilities. Licensees of stations suffering or causing harmful interference are expected to cooperate and resolve this problem by mutually satisfactory arrangements. If the licensees are unable to do so, the Commission may impose restrictions including specifying the transmitter power, antenna height, or area or hours of operation of the stations concerned. Further, the use of any frequency at a given geographical location may be denied when, in the judgment of the Commission, its use in that location is not in the public interest; the use of any frequency may be restricted as to specify geographical areas, maximum power, or such other operating conditions, contained in this part or in the station authorization.

The following Compliance Request Report (CRR) should be completed for interference complaints and submitted to APCO for processing. The form can be faxed to (386) 322-2502, ATTN: RF Interference or sent by internet e-mail to rfinterference@apco911.org.

A copy of this report will be emailed to the address in the first email address box.

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Licensee Name:
Contact Name:
 Title:
Mailing Address:
City:
 State / Zip:
  /  
Phone:
 Fax:
Email Address:
Technical Contact Name:
 Title:
Agency:
 Email Address:
Phone:
 Fax:
Call Sign:
 Station Class(es):
Type of Public Safety System (conventional, trunked, analog, digital, voice, MDT, etc.):
Type of Service (police, fire, EMS, public works, etc. - list all)):
Squelch Tones (if available):
 Coverage Area:
Transmit Frequency(ies):
 Receive Frequency(ies):
Population Estimate of Service Area:
City:
 County / State:
  /  
Latitude:
 Longitude:
Date of interference commencement:
Repitition:
 Duration:
Frequency(ies) Receiving Interference:
Interference Description:
Identified (or potential) interference source:
Has the interference been reported to:
APCO
FCC
Commercial Provider
Has the interference been resolved?
If so, how was this accomplished?
Is this interference:
Annoying
Dangerously harmful
Interfering Party
Licensee Name:
Contact Name:
 Title:
Mailing Address:
City:
 State / Zip:
  /  
Phone:
 Fax:
Email Address:
Call Sign:
 Station Class(es):
Squelch Tones (if available):
Transmitter Address:
City / State:
  /  
Latitude:
 Longitude:

 

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