Thanks for the clarification, CA. I always have difficulty interpreting the FCC database entries, and post-Covid "brain fog" coupled with chronic pain doesn't help matters any.
I've checked a couple of different online Utah SDR's at least a half dozen times to see if I could hear anything on 1550, and I've never heard anything that sounded like a local signal on either the West Jordan or Northern Utah (near Corrine) SDR's. I don't understand why the receiver never bothered to have a longwire antenna and a low power transmitter set up on 1550 to provide at least some type of programming to keep the license active. Even if KMRI simply rebroadcast the local NOAA Weather Radio station with 20 watts, that would be a cheap way to avoid the extended silent status until the tower can be replaced, and to keep the FCC happy. There was an AM station in Minnesota that rebroadcast NOAA with a longwire and 20 watts after its tower site was lost, and Cumulus kept the license for 1230 alive for two years or more by airing CBS Sports Radio with 20 watts and a wire antenna from Cumulus' offices on Bearcat Drive in Salt Lake. Who knows, perhaps the receiver and/or the current license holder aren't really motivated to resurrect KMRI from the dead. However, I seem to recall something about a pending sale being mentioned in the Petition for Reconsideration filed by the receiver. Perhaps the pending sale fell through, assuming I've got my facts straight.
