The FCC Public Safety Bureau Friday rejected a...

The FCC Public Safety Bureau Friday rejected a waiver request from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission asking that its use of frequencies 159.045 MHz and 159.075 MHz as mobile relay repeater transmit channels be granted co-primary rather than secondary status. The Pennsylvania commission used the frequencies for 40 years before recently discovering they had secondary status, the bureau said (http://bit.ly/1u7bhOl). “We are not persuaded by the Turnpike’s hyperbolic claim that secondary operation ‘has technically, financially and operationally placed immense challenges and impediments on the Turnpike’s present and future use of its system,'” the bureau said. “The claim that -- after 40 years of apparently interference-free operation -- it is going to have to cease operations on a moment’s notice is wholly speculative.”