Clemons wants to go on legally

Jeff Lehmann jjlehmann@comcast.net
Fri Apr 18 15:13:56 EDT 2014


Maybe that was his way of getting around the rules? The address listed for WXBJ if you look it up (on fccinfo.com for example) and his ham radio callsign, W1XMJ, are a match.

Jeff Lehmann

> On Apr 18, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Mike Ward <mward@iname.com> wrote:
> 
> The FCC application doesn't list Mr. McDonough at all, under any name...unless he's had a sex change.
> 
> The licensee is non-profit corporation Good Neighbor Station, Inc., and the two principals are Josephine Salhab and Kayla Stevens (50% each).
> 
> http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1588272&Service=FL&Form_id=318&Facility_id=195189
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Jeff Lehmann <jjlehmann@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Being busted running a pirate, or at least being issued a notice of unlicensed operation does not prevent you from getting a LPFM. Joseph McDonough ran the 87.9 The Wave pirate in Boxford, did get a NOUO, and now has a LPFM, 94.9 WXBJ in Salisbury. He also wants a full power FM on 88.3 as well.
>> 
>> Jeff Lehmann
>> 
>> > On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Mike Ward <mward@iname.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The other problem is, of course, that Clemons can't be involved in any LPFM
>> > due to FCC rules...especially now that he's been busted.
>> >> On Apr 18, 2014 11:24 AM, "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=2780738#sthash.vtERb5oP.uxfs
>> >>
>> >>>> Clemons, a former police officer, defended the breaking of the law
>> >> explaining his station was filling a void that local licensed stations
>> >> weren’t filling in the African American community.  He now plans to go
>> >> after a low-power FM pointing out he marched 712 miles to Washington in
>> >> 2009 to support efforts that ultimately won an expansion of the service.
>> >> “We’re going to go through the legal channels,” Clemons said.
>> >>
>> >> (As if there are any avail in Boston--that 103.7 religious station could
>> >> have been a possibility...and there were a bunch of LPFM permits that are
>> >> in the works...)
>> >>
> 


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