For your viewing pleasure. The “New” FCC wants the world to have access to its data, so here we go.
If you’re using a GPS enabled Cell phone (and you let it send your location), it will show EVERY fcc licensed “thing” around you – cell phone towers, Public Safety (Police, fire, ambulences, hospitals), paging services, 3G/4G broadband internet, AM/FM/TV, trains, fast food restaurants, etc…)
For each thing it finds, there is a link to the FRN (FCC Registration Number) that tells you the contact information for the licensee), and a link to Google Maps showing the approximate location (usually within 100 feet or so)
If you are not using a GPS device, or don’t allow it to disclose your location, you’ll be given the chance to type a city name, and it will do the search at that location.
The first time you search an area, the reaponse may be a little slow as the data is being read in from disk
Is this a list of licenses granted just to commercial and government entities by the FCC?
I doubt it includes Federal agencies, and it doesn’t include HAM licenses.
The closest thing to me is McDonalds has a license on 154.6 MHz (probably the headset things they use for the drivethru). Poking around, that frquency no longer requires a license. Downtown, a manufacturing company has a license, but the factory was torn down about 5 years ago and made into a Home Depot.
I have long believed a significant number of commercial AM stations hav ceased operations and not told the FCC. Because license renewals are now only every 8 years, one of the reasons for regular contact isn’t there. The renewal cycle has just started.
I member another example where a widow was signing the apps as if her husband was still alive and hadn’t been screened to be sure she was allowed to be a licensee (and probably skipped that probate thingy)