Well said, Steve. If we could also keep it off the ham bands it would be even
better.
73,
Jim K4QPL
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> On Jul 25, 2024, at 12:30 PM, Steve Dyer W1SRD via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> Let's try really hard to keep political OPINIONS off this list and keep it
> focused on useful technical RFI discussions.
> Steve
> W1SRD
>
>
>> On 7/25/2024 8:34 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
>> Small Government, what is that? How about those in charge of the FCC
>> determined that enforcement was not a priority and diverted those fund
>> elsewhere. They could decide that enforcement was a priority today and do
>> something about it. If the "small government" can hire 87k agents to come
>> after us peons, it could find money to fund enforcement.
>>
>> When has our government been small in the last 50 years? Never. The US
>> Government has spent 5 trillion dollars so far this year but we can't build
>> a border wall, the Pentagon accidentally gave Ukraine 6 billion dollars and
>> billions and billions of our tax dollars wasted on a myriad of BS studies,
>> and pork laden projects hidden inside bills that are 1000's of pages long.
>> Maybe some of it could be diverted to the Secret Service before someone
>> actually gets killed.
>>
>> The FCC could do a lot of things if it wanted to. It would just have to be
>> a priority of the administration. These top level bureaucrats seem to think
>> they have more power than congress. When they sold off all of the public
>> airwaves what did they do with the money? It certainly was not put back
>> into enforcement or probably the FCC at all. Even with the Supreme Court
>> ruling regarding the agencies withing the government, OSHA, EPA, FCC, et
>> al.... nothing will probably change.
>>
>> Every chart I can find on gov't spending since WWII shows a pretty steep
>> climb every year. Terms like small government is just rhetoric to charge up
>> the voters. The FCC of course would blame the administration or congress.
>> It is what they do.
>>
>> Why has the ARRL failed to really lobby congress on this? Does the ARRL
>> want to become the enforcement arm of the ham bands and get paid for it?
>> RFI folks at the ARRL are a huge help but there is no outcry about the
>> continued increase of noise in populated areas all from crap that does not
>> meet written rules. Why is the FCC not leading the charge against all these
>> solar companies, bad products that generate all sorts of crap with their
>> switching supplies etc.
>>
>> We are not making enough noise (as a body of users of the airwaves) to get
>> any attention. The same reason it has been hard to get tower exemptions and
>> antenna exemptions in HOA's. 1 million hams give or take in the US but most
>> of them are silent.
>>
>> If you want your blood to really boil, research what happens when the Feds
>> are called in for big fires.
>>
>>
>> Mike W0MU
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 7/19/2024 1:10 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>>> On 7/19/2024 8:34 AM, David Eckhardt wrote:
>>>> At the FCC both enforcement
>>>> and OET (Office of Engineering and Technology) has been gutted.
>>>
>>> This all happened 40 years ago, thanks to "small government," made worse by
>>> the increased takeover of government by big money and unlimited
>>> contributions to elected officials and those running for office.
>>>
>>> 73, Jim K9YC
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