Was it not always so?? Remember the politicians pay the bills not the
engineers!
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Williams" <wd6...@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<time-nuts@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 <mp...@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.
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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
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