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FCC Radio
Station License for MEDCOM
Every
MEDCOM radio station in the US is required to have an FCC License.
Therefore any Hospital with an emergency room, is required to
have a current FCC radio station license. This
license is good for a period of ten years, and renewable for additional
years.
Once a new FCC radio station license is granted, with in the
first year
the FCC requires the user to also send in a FCC radio station
construction notification.
This validates the user as actually using the license and
worthy of the
RF spectrum allocated to the entity. Each State has a unique EMS
Communications
Plan that calls out how the MEDCOM radio channels will be allocated.
When
their state will
migrate to the federally mandated narrow band MEDCOM radio frequencies,
and other parameters of how the
hospitals or EMS will use these MEDCOM radio channels. There is
some
variation
between the states and when FCC Licensing is performed typically a
letter from
the State must accommodate the application to the FCC for radio station
license. There are also costs associated with frequency
coordination
efforts that are required for the FCC to approve an application.
FCC licensing work is typically done before the opening of a new hospital emergency department facility, or if the FCC MEDCOM radio station license has expired with out proper renewal. Construction notices must also be performed with the FCC within the first year of granting of the license. This work is often done by MEDCOM FCC licensing professionals because of the FCC application, state grant approval, frequency coordination and construction notice this process is knowledge and process intense.
A sample FCC hospital radio station license is included below for a type I trauma facility in South Florida. This one has MEDCOM 80 UHF frequencies.
FCC licensing work is typically done before the opening of a new hospital emergency department facility, or if the FCC MEDCOM radio station license has expired with out proper renewal. Construction notices must also be performed with the FCC within the first year of granting of the license. This work is often done by MEDCOM FCC licensing professionals because of the FCC application, state grant approval, frequency coordination and construction notice this process is knowledge and process intense.
A sample FCC hospital radio station license is included below for a type I trauma facility in South Florida. This one has MEDCOM 80 UHF frequencies.
This
site is new and being populated with
information as time becomes available; if you have any questions that
you
would like to discuss with a MEDCOM radio communications professional,
please feel free to call. My name
is Mark Lavallee and I am charged with keeping the MEDCOM Hospital
Radio
network up and running for more than 30 hospitals in the United States.
My
direct phone # is 954-961-2642 and I like to share my knowledge. I would be glad to speak with
anyone in the
United States or abroad about their Emergency Departments MEDCOM questions or projects.