[time-nuts] Coalition to Save GPS

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 21:41:36 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Jim Palfreyman <jim77742 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find this quite strange. I have three questions:
>
> 1) Why would your FCC allow such a thing?

(a) FCC commissioners are political appointees, not engineers.  They
are appointed to 6 year terms.   Maybe they were appointed by some
pro-bussines, anti-science administration?

(b) The people proposing to build this system stand to make a lot of
money and are likely spending a good sum to convince government
officials that they should be allowed to proceed.

The best why to fight this is to let more and different groups of GPS
users know what is going on.   Next let the media know.  They like a
conflict like this, but you'll have to wait for a slower news day,
Earthquakes in Japan and civil war in Libya are hotter stories than
competing uses of the L1 band.   Collect most of the facts and email
them to radio, TV and print media.


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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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