[time-nuts] FCC politics vs their engineers...

[Michael Baker]

Time-Nutters--

Jim wrote:
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 > That's why the FCC granted a "conditional" waiver
 > of the rules.  It was politically expedient, and I would
 > imagine that the engineers at the FCC thought "there's
 > no way they'll be able to demonstrate no interference"

Charles wrote:
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 > The Commission not only thought LS would demonstrate
 > non-interference, it put its thumb on the scale until the
 > public outcry became too loud to ignore (the GPS interests
 > took forever to wake up -- that didn't happen until all of
 > the comment periods were long closed).  It just didn't
 > matter what the staff engineers thought -- which is
 > business  as usual at the FCC.
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A friend of mine was one of the FCC lead supervisory engineers
that was involved in the LS fiasco.  He tells me that there were
technical reports, evaluation summaries and strong opinions
offered by the engineering staff that provided a number of
reasons why the LS project should be denied.  He tells me that
most of these engineering studies got buried and ignored.
He tells me with some bitterness that politics triumphed over
all of the objections of the engineering staff to LS and that this
is not the first time that this has happened.

Mike Baker
Gainesville, FL  USA