Engineers that work for the FCC, of course. Their names are not
ordinarily revealed and the mouthpiece of the FCC is a customer service
agent (and for some amateur matters, the ARRL, who relays information
from the FCC offices). This structure should be fairly obvious to anyone
with experience in business.
Trevor,
Ask Toyota for the names of the engineers investigating the unexpected
acceleration and I doubt that you will get an answer! Ask the President
who is responsible for reports from the White House and you will only
find out through a legal action. I am sure these "walls" are set up to
protect employees from frivolous attacks.
However, there is a "Freedom of Information Act" that can be invoked
through legal action to obtain some internal documents of the
government, but they are generally not offered to the public without a
court order, for obvious reasons. The FCC customer service agent is the
person who relays decisions to the public, and that agent probably does
not make the decisions personally or without consultation. This is
analogous to the Press Secretary of the White House.
If you want to verify the originator of a decision, you have a right to
do so through the appropriate legal process.
The FCC's customer service agent has relayed a FCC decision to reaffirm
that ROS is indeed FHSS and that, under current rules, as docemented in
Part 97, SS is only allowed above 222 MHz.
That is generally the way it works on this side of the pond, and we have
no choice but to abide by the system or petition for change.
73 - Skip KH6TY
Trevor . wrote:
--- On Wed, 10/3/10, KH6TY <kh...@comcast.net
<mailto:kh6ty%40comcast.net>> wrote:
> Alan, though we may disagree as to the amount or nature of FHSS in ROS,
> the bottom line is that the FCC engineers, as well as the ARRL
engineers,
> reviewed both the documentation and the signal footprint, and have
> concluded it is FHSS.
Who are these "FCC Engineers" ? All we've has is a response from
someone that may be assumed to be an office clerk who simply quoted
back the words in Part 97.
73 Trevor M5AKA
