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

[J. Forster]

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making
decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay
no price for being wrong." - Thomas Sowell

YMMV,

-John

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> 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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