[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-03-01 Thread Bob Bruninga
In this case that would be wrong. The headphone manufacturers complained that good foam costs too much and were allowed to get away with tissue paper and now everyone pays for allowing lobbyists and lawyers run the FCC and ignore good design principles No, its not just good foam that is

[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-03-01 Thread Robert McGwier
Okay, we agree with Shakespeare ... kill all the lawyers, at least then we could be allowed to do the engineering AHEAD OF TIME. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Bob Bruninga bruni...@usna.edu wrote: In this case that would be wrong. The headphone manufacturers complained that good foam

[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-02-29 Thread Ted
You forgot to weave the FCC Commissioners into the story somewhere..they will figure out a way to screw things up TK, K7TRK -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Bob Bruninga Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:46 AM

[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-02-29 Thread Dee
Bob, I was involved with the 800 mhz fiasco with the public safety bands and the Phone company!!?? Because of the deluge of complaints and the monies involved by repairing this, you would think they would learn from a huge mistake Somehow, we forget the adage we must learn from our mistakes

[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-02-29 Thread Robert McGwier
In this case that would be wrong. The headphone manufacturers complained that good foam costs too much and were allowed to get away with tissue paper and now everyone pays for allowing lobbyists and lawyers run the FCC and ignore good design principles On Feb 29, 2012 3:01 PM, Bob Bruninga

[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Dolkas
Hi Bob(s), I think the difference here is that, continuing the headphone analogy, the headphone manufacturers created a line of very popular lightweight headphones at an affordable price, knowing that the environment they were going to be used in were to be music rooms and other places with quiet

[amsat-bb] Re: Lightsquared Analogy

2012-02-29 Thread Robert McGwier
This is my opinion. It is a mistake in engineering and policy to invalidate all spectrum in the neighborhood of a service by allowing poor front ends to control the adjacent spectrum forever. This decision was made to lessen the cost at the expense of never allowing anything next door. That is