Notice Goes Out To Unlicensed Omaha AM

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Notice Goes Out To Unlicensed Omaha AM

April 16, 2010: The FCC has sent a notice of unlicensed operation last week to Sean Murta of Omaha, saying that, based on information received at the Kansas City office, it had found that an unlicensed station at 1640 AM was operating from Murta's home.

The notice points out that the field strength of the signal was over the maximum for unlicensed broadcasts, and that its ground wire was radiating and exceeding the three-meter combined maximum for all radiating elements. The FCC warned Murta to cease operating the station immediately.

Murta's station, running political talk, calls itself Liberty Radio, and a notice on its website says, "Yes, we have been visited by the FCC, but they and we are very cooperative." The station calls the grounding issue a "gray area" and says the matter is being corrected, adding that a new transmitter will improve its signal in Omaha.

The complaint to the FCC, says Liberty Radio, "came from a bitter man who didn't want to hear that his politician was a puppet and that someone in Nebraska could operate a radio station without red tape."