License monitoring
Renewals, buildouts and tower changes, flagged months ahead.
Put licenses on a watch list for renewal and construction deadlines, keep an eye on the towers you own or rent space on, and define an area to hear about new towers and licenses inside it. Sentinel RF re-checks everything after each weekly FCC refresh and sends what changed to one notification center and your inbox.
Set it once
Sentinel RF watches the FCC data so nobody has to remember to.
A license terminates on its expiration date unless a renewal was filed in time, and a missed construction deadline can end it too. The dates are public; the work is noticing them. For what the rules require and when, see the renewal guide.
License watch list
Put your licenses, and your customers', on a watch list by callsign or FRN, one at a time or imported straight from a spreadsheet. Sentinel RF checks every one against each weekly FCC data refresh.
180, 90, and 30-day renewal alerts
Automatic expiration alerts at 180, 90, and 30 days out, delivered in the app and by email, the way a diligent office manager would catch them.
Buildout deadlines watched like renewals
Construction notification deadlines sit right beside the renewal dates: the earliest unfiled deadline on each license, the days left, and alerts at 90 days, 30 days, and overdue. An unfiled buildout can cost the license, so it gets the same attention an expiration does.
A watch list for the towers themselves
Add a structure by its ASR number, or add your owner FRN and pick up every tower registered to you at once, with newly registered ones joining on their own. Name each site the way your crew does, not by its registration number.
Told when a tower changes under you
Alerts when a watched structure changes owner, changes status, or changes height, and when an application is filed against its registration. That last one is the earliest warning there is, because a filing lands before the registration itself changes. It matters whether you own the tower and lease space out or just have gear on someone else's: a site going up for dismantlement is not something to learn from a field visit.
Tower light outages, straight from the FAA
When a top light or flashing beacon fails on a registered tower, the owner has to report it and the FAA issues an obstruction NOTAM that carries the ASR number. Sentinel RF pulls the FAA's NOTAM feed every twenty minutes, matches it against your watched towers and areas, and alerts you when a NOTAM is issued, extended, cancelled, or expires. Where the FAA left the ASR number off, the tower is matched by its coordinates. For the operation that maintains the lighting, that is a service call within the hour instead of a compliance problem weeks later.
A lighting outage log that closes the loop
When a light fails, log it against the structure and the platform writes the report Flight Service asks for: ASR number, coordinates, height, the light that failed, the nearest airport and your return-to-service date. It tracks the 30-minute reporting window in 47 CFR 17.48, confirms from the FAA feed that the NOTAM actually appeared, reminds you before the NOTAM expires while the light is still out, and closes the record when the cancellation shows up. Every step is timestamped, so each structure carries its own compliance history.
See who else is licensed on your tower
Every license whose transmit site is that structure, listed against it. This is the FCC's own record of who is on the tower, not a guess from nearby coordinates, so it is worth trusting for a tenant audit or a co-location question.
Watch an area for new antenna structures
Define an area and stay aware of new antenna-structure applications and grants inside it. A simple, weekly heads-up on what is being proposed or built nearby, useful for planning, coordination, and local awareness.
Watch new licenses near your frequency
Set an area and a frequency band, and get notified when a new license is granted or applied for nearby: the coordination and interference check a system operator actually needs.
Draw it, or upload a boundary
Define the area as a simple radius, a polygon you trace on the map, or a boundary you upload as GeoJSON or a shapefile, reprojected for you automatically.
One notification center
Renewal windows, expirations, status changes, and new-activity alerts collect in one place, so nothing depends on one person remembering to check.
Just the licensing side
Search & Watch, for organizations that hold licenses.
Everything on this page, plus the full FCC license and tower search, is sold on its own for the organizations that hold FCC licenses rather than service the radios: municipalities, utilities, public-safety agencies, schools, hospitals, and any organization with callsigns on file. It does not include the cited answers, the document library or the RF calculators, and you can move up to an Engineering plan any time and keep your watch lists.
Keep reading
Cited answers
Your service manuals, procedures and bulletins become a library every tech can ask. Every answer names the document and page, and it says so when the library does not cover the question.
Coverage studies
LMR area studies, contours, path studies, TSB-88 tile reliability, receive-site surveys, microwave paths and sectored CBRS sites, over USGS terrain at your actual site.
RF calculators
Site intermod, short spacing, AM protection, shared-site exposure and desense, Fresnel zones, coax loss, ERP and the small stuff. Five of them run free on this site.
FCC license search
A full, weekly-refreshed copy of ULS and the antenna structure register, with leases and market licenses included, searchable by callsign, licensee, FRN, frequency or area.
Put your own callsigns on a watch list.
Start a trial, import your licenses from a spreadsheet or add them by FRN, and see every date that matters in one list.