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YMMV, -John =============== > 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. >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------ >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** >>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.