Useless radio transmissions

Grumman-581 wrote:
Sounds like you might be complaining about the symptoms, not the
actual problem (i.e. multiple airports on the same frequency)... I
always wondered why the FAA does this... There seems to be enough
frequencies that they could spread them out a bit...

I really agree, but it's not the FAA who nominally does the
"spreading." Unicom base stations apply to the FCC for the freq
and most applied decades ago. FAA would have to adopt a rule
(FAR), which states they now at its whim can order unicom base
stations to apply for a new freq other than their present 122.8.
Some fraction of airport operators then have the legal right
(the Administrative Procedures Act, plus an Executive Order which
gives the Office of Management and Budget the authority to weigh
in as to the need for new rules on affected citizens, like unicom
operators) to comment and oppose, stating (even if blowing smoke
in many cases) that it will cost them too much, and then FAA must
under law justify the cost-benefit to finally adopt the new rule.

This legal reality is a door which can swing both ways. It tends
also to prevent FAA from from just thinking about imposing rules
on us pilots or owners in other seeming nuisance areas which will
cost us too much re a cost-benefit analysis.

Fred F.