DOES THE FCC MAINTAIN A DATABASE THAT INCLUDES INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION AND TECHNICAL PARAMETERS OF ALL OF THE TRANSMITTER SITES IT REGULATES?
The Commission does not have a comprehensive, transmitter-specific database for all of the services it regulates. The Commission has information for some services such as radio and television broadcast stations, and many larger antenna towers are required to register with the FCC if they meet certain criteria. In those cases, location information is generally specified in terms of degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude. In some services, licenses are allowed to utilize additional transmitters or to increase power without notifying the Commission. Other services are licensed by geographic area, such that the Commission has no knowledge concerning the actual number or location of transmitters within that geographic area. The FCC General Menu Reports (GenMen) search engine unites most of the Commission’s licensing databases under a single umbrella. Databases included are the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s ULS, the Media Bureau’s CDBS, COALS (cable data) and BLS, and
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