and as posting in another email “We conclude that the pleading cycle for LightSquared’s request — in which the Comment Public Notice was issued on November 19, 2010, with comments due on December 2, 2010, and reply comments due on December 9, 2010 — is sufficient for the decisions we make herein.”
Happy Thanksgiving ... -pete On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:14 PM, <cl...@nwlink.com> wrote: > This is not the first time the FCC "politicians" have ignored their own > technical staff. A while back there was the same sort of flap around BPL > (Broadband Internet over Power Lines) - after several years of "trials" > and lots of taxpayer money wasted, it's basically been declared a > "non-starter". > > So - I wrote my Legislators and asked them to look into this. Patty > Murray's (Sen D-WA) office responded with a query to the FCC, asking them > to respond to me. I'm certain that my other Senator will do the same > thing, as will my CongressCritter (well, maybe not, he's not as responsive > on this stuff) - in any case, if we get folks from all 50 states (or even > half) to do the same thing, the FCC will be inundated with "Legislative > Requests" on this, which will at least annoy the heck out of them and MAY > cause them to either review this decision or at least THINK before they do > it again. > > Clay > Amateur Radio N7QNM > > >> Hi >> >> I would by no means argue with any of those points. The only thing I would >> add is that 40,000 transmitters is a *lot* of hardware to fill in gaps. >> You >> could do a pretty good job covering the whole country with that much >> hardware. The same math that goes for jamming, also works pretty well for >> coverage. >> >> Bob >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On >> Behalf Of Robert Atkinson >> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:54 PM >> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared has been given >> thegoahead >> >> >> >> Hi, >> First I'm in the UK so this does not directly affect me. I do have some >> slightly independent comments. >> Firstly the Garmin tests seemed very reasonable and erred to favor >> LightSquared. They were free field in an anecohic chamber. There was an L1 >> notch filter in the output of the LightSquared simulator. I'd guess the >> Aviation GPS was worse because of A and older design and B It will only >> give >> valid outputs if it is sure the signal is OK. >> On the politcal side, LightSquared are supposed to be supplying nationwide >> satellite service. The ground stations are "fill in" for heavy use areas. >> This is seamless with the sat service so they "had" to be the same >> band. So >> they got permission to use the band. What is the betting that once the >> service is established they will drop or price hike the sat service? That >> would save them the $115,000,000 per year that they are paying Intelsat. >> >> Robert G8RPI. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.