The applicant for the license is Talk Radio of Pahrump, Inc.
You don’t suppose?…..
Art Bell already owns an FM station in Pahrump, and people who own real radio stations can’t own an LPFM license.
The applicant behind the license is named Harvey Kaplan. He previously owned non commercial station KQLN-FM in Alamo, NV. He turned in the license after deciding nobody wanted his station.
http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?658627-KQLN-Alamo
Harvey is a “ham” radio operator, so it is extremely unlikely they wouldn’t know each other.
Well, that sure seems odd. So, we are to understand there is no interest in a FM station in little ole, dry ‘n dusty place called Pahrump? What’s the population that would be within the range of a LPFM signal? Not counting jackrabbits of course.
The full license he gave up was in Alamo, population about 1,100.
Parumph is around 26,000 including the prostitutes at the brothels, but not their customers flying in from Saudi Arabia.
The beauty part of LPFM is you go in knowing you’re going to lose money and only have 3 people listening to it.
More background
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2010/ham_radio_at_nevada_station.htm
Gabbing on 75 or 80 meters can (during sunspots) send a signal halfway around the globe. What is the attraction with LPFM? We had one when I was in High School and it irritated 4 of our close neighbors 🙂
There seem to be two main groups behind LPFM – religious broadcasters with no intent to have local originated progrmming (mostly 7th day adventists) and immigrant “community activist” groups.
The FCC has a couple motivations – it is a way to legitamize pirate FM stations so they can then shut them down in a year (!) and a way to simplify stations for college stations and high schools who don’t need a range beyond a few blocks, rather than a full power Class D FM license.