Mike, WØMU (et.al.):
I wouldn't disagree with anything you wrote! I put food on our table and a
roof over our heads as an EMC/RFI engineer for some 40 years. I'm
retired, thank heaven. I've witnessed the slippery downward slide of the
FCC's lack of care for anything involved in CFR47 (the FCC "charter", if
you will). Part 15 is a joke. At present, FCC is just a collection of
overpaid lawyers who wouldn't know RF energy if it bit them in the
posterior. OET has been gutted - once a highly respected technical office
at the FCC.
Have a read of my QRZ page. I've given up.
Dave - WØLEV
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 3:34 PM Mike Fatchett W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com> 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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