[time-nuts] latest on the lightsquared 'saga'

[Pete Lancashire]

Forget ..

in the nlpc article

How Phil Falcone ensured a "suitably flexible FCC"

pretty much sums it up

1. visit white house
2. make maximum contributes (you, your wife and your boss) a couple days later
3. get the go ahead from the FCC

An just to ensure it is totally bipartisan, make sure you have made
the max contributions to the other parthy

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
> Hi
>
> There's obviously major fuel behind this thing. I'm willing to pass up GPS
> underground. It's GPS out in the open that is my main concern. IF they are
> going to use this for "last mile" connect to homes it will indeed be
> everywhere and anywhere. IF that's the case, you loose all sorts of GPS
> stuff.
>
> I'd hate to see my GPSDO collection wind up sitting next to the Loran C
> stuff out in the shed.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Harris
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:23 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] latest on the lightsquared 'saga'
>
> Tunnels wouldn't be such a great thing, as many of them have GPS
> transponders
> built in so that you can continue tracking as you pass through the tunnel.
>
> The administration has made it a major priority to bring broadband internet
> to everyone's Crackberry.... It looks like they are going to do it
> regardless
> of the consequences.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> This stuff is obviously on the fast track to somewhere. There is no
>> practical way to come up with the information needed in the time allowed.
>> There's a train wreck out there in somebody's future.
>>
>> Has anybody seen an actual map of where they plan to deploy all 40,000
> these
>> 1.5KW transmitters? I'm sure that at least 2,000 of them will be in
> tunnels
>> and other RF dark caves. It's the other 38,000 that I'm wondering about.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
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