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

2013-09-18 Thread Rob Kimberley
ways so?? Remember the politicians pay the bills not the > engineers! > Alan > G3NYK > > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Williams" > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:04 PM &

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

2013-09-17 Thread J. Forster
bills not the > engineers! > Alan > G3NYK > > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Williams" > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:04 PM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC politics vs t

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

2013-09-17 Thread Alan Melia
Was it not always so?? Remember the politicians pay the bills not the engineers! Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Eric Williams" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] F

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

2013-09-17 Thread Eric Williams
"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 wrote: > Time-Nut

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

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Baker
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