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

[Alan Melia]

Was it not always so?? Remember the politicians pay the bills not the 
engineers!
Alan
G3NYK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Williams" <wd6cmu at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC politics vs their engineers...


> "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."
>
> That's how we ended up with Challenger and Columbia.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Michael Baker <mpb45 at clanbaker.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Time-Nutters--
>>
>> Jim wrote:
>> snip
>> > 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:
>> snip
>> > 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.
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>>
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