User:Neutralhomer/KBQS-LP

KBQS-LP is a Variety formatted broadcast radio station. The station is licensed to and serving Sacramento in California. KBQS-LP is owned and operated by Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen. The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen is a volunteer, bicycle shop serving the residents of Sacramento to promote cycling, offer maintenance, and classes.

History
KBQS-LP's original construction permit was filed by the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen on October 27, 2014. The station received it's License to Cover on October 25, and began broadcasting on November 6 , 2017.

Less than three months later, on January 24, KBQS-LP was taken silent, due to interference from co-channel translator K255CL, owned by Educational Media Foundation. On May 31, 2018, the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen filed documents to move from 98.9 to 107.5, but the application was dismissed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A subsequent Petition for Reconsideration was also dismissed days later on June 7. On September 24, the STA allowing KBQS-LP to be silent was extended by the FCC. On February 4, 2019, KBQS-LP returned to the airwaves.

On four separate occasions, in early 2019 and late 2020, beginning on February 16, a woman using the name of "Kaylee Lynn Stein" filed applications regarding KBQS-LP, making many outlandish and patently false claims. All of the applications made by "Stein" were quickly denied or dismissed by the FCC. The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen filed an application on March 19, as the organization continued to work on their interference issues. The application would see the station drop the station's power from 50 to 33 watts and raising their antenna's height from 22.4939 m to 52 m. This application was approved by the FCC. Less than a month later on April 17, the station powered down to begin the move of their antenna.

On March 19, 2020, KBQS returned to the airwaves, once again. The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen filed a License to Cover, for their new antenna height and wattage, on March 23, 2020, and it was granted by the FCC on May 11, 2020 (likely due to the lockdowns in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic). On March 5, 2021, the license of KBQS-LP was, for unknown reasons, deleted by the FCC but then immediately reinstated on the same day.