Atlanta Broadcast
Frequency Coordination

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Last Updated: 10 November 2025   

Atlanta Broadcast Frequency Coordination Requests should be sent to: [email protected]

We ask that you not send email attachments. 
Please send your request in the body of your email.
   

Frequency Coordinators

Below 1 GHz

Above 1 GHz

Dewey Newton
404-885-0864
Cell: 404-966-7971
[email protected]
Andy Funk, CBTE
404-898-0116
Page: 404-864-1122
Cell: 404-285-9164
[email protected]
*** Please � send all coordination requests to *** [email protected]

 

Communication:

For communication amongst Atlanta 2 GHz ENG users, and others interested in Atlanta 2 GHz, there is an Internet email "reflector" or mailing list, [email protected]

This is a "closed" list � it will only accept postings from list members, and membership is subject to approval. Information on the list, including subscribing and unsubscribing, and an archive of past postings to the list, can be found on the list's web page. 

Additional mailing lists (below 1 GHz, etc.) may be added if there is sufficient interest. (Let Andy know.)


 

Coordinated 2/2.5 GHz ENG Use

Channel
Number
Primary User (Affiliation)  Control Point Telephone Control Point
Department
 
1 WAGA (Fox) 404-898-0118 News
2 WSB (ABC) 404-897-7525 News
3 WXIA (NBC) 404-892-4753 Engineering
4 WGCL (CBS) 404-327-3167 Engineering
5 WSB (ABC) 404-897-7525 News
6 WXIA (NBC) 404-892-4753 Engineering
7 WAGA (Fox) 404-898-0118 News
8 WGCL (CBS) 404-327-3167 Engineering
9 CNN 404-827-2960 Andy Parsons
10 Itinerant and Occasional, Shared Use

 

Contact People

Station Contact Title Phone
CNN Andy Parsons Technical Projects Dir. 404-827-2960
WAGA Andy Funk News Operations Supervisor 404-898-0116
WAGA Earl Johnson Engineer 404-898-0227
WAGA Bill Jackson Engineer 404-898-0222
WSB Cyndi Quitmeyer  ENG Coordinator 404-897-7525
WSB John Smith  ENG Coordinator 404-897-7525
WSB Gene Faulkner Director of Engineering 404-897-7424
WGCL Roger Katchen Chief Engineer 404-327-3162
WXIA Paul Tanton Chief Engineer 404-892-4753
SBE Dewey Newon Coordinator, < 1 GHz 404-885-0864
SBE Andy Funk Coordinator, > 1 GHz 404-898-0116
FCC Atlanta Office   770-935-3370
FCC Doug Miller Engineer 770-935-3372
FCC Fred Broce Engineer In Charge 770-935-3373
FCC Watch Officer 24/7 in Washington, DC 202-632-6975

 

Download this information as a handy wall chart in MS Word format to post at your control point: Atlanta2GHz.doc

Please send corrections and changes to Andy Funk .
   
   
 

Wireless Internet or Palm PC?

Do you have a handheld (Palm� OS, etc.) computer or Internet-equipped cell phone or other device? Then check out the small-format version of this page, at:

wireless.arfunk.com/coord.html


NEWS

2 GHz Third Report And Order
10 November 2025

The FCC has issued it's Third Report and Order on the 2 GHz reallocation and realignment. 
This is important reading!  Read or download the pdf version from the FCC: 

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-280A1.pdf 


New Rules for Fixed Links 
(from
http://sbe.org/StayDenied.htm)

The six-month stay of new coordination rules expired on October 15. On October 16, the FCC issued a denial of SBE's request to extend that stay by another six months to give broadcasters more time to update their incomplete or erroneous license records in the Universal Licensing System (ULS). At the present time, applications for new licenses or major modifications to licenses in the Aural BAS band above 944 MHz, and the TV BAS bands above 2450 MHz (fixed services only) require a Supplemental Showing demonstrating compliance with the new notification requirement. However, applications filed solely for the purpose of adding missing information (such as receive site data) do not require frequency coordination and can still be filed without the Supplemental Showing. (Such filings do, however, require a filing fee of $120 per license, except for fee-exempt entities.) Part 74 licensees are therefore encouraged to proceed with such filings in the interest of making the ULS database more complete and accurate. For further details, you can read the FCC orders using the links below.

  Stay Expires as FCC Denies Extension
  FCC Denies Fee Waiver - Stations Should Update ULS ASAP

Note: the above links are to pdf files

 Coordinating Part 74 Fixed Microwave Links in Georgia

First, please read the SBE Policy Regarding "Fixed-Link" Frequency Coordination.

The Atlanta volunteer coordinators cannot provide the PCN services now required for coordination of Part 74 microwave fixed links. It is up to each licensee to ensure they have met the PCN requirements. The FCC maintains an online List of Microwave Frequency Coordinators who can provide this service. Keep in mind that these are commercial entities � you will be charged for their services.

No, the SBE and your local volunteer coordinators cannot recommend specific commercial frequency coordinators.  


Broadcast Auxiliary Frequency Coordination is a service of:

 

SBE Peach State Chapter 5


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