[time-nuts] Req: Decent GPS AntennaActive/Passive Recommendation

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 17 00:21:40 EDT 2013


On 9/16/13 12:48 PM, Charles Steinmetz wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
>> Spectrum regulators know this, of course, and assign adjacent services
>> accordingly.
>
> They do?  Remember, it was the FCC that came up with the idea of using
> the Mobile Satellite Service L-band downlink spectrum for terrestrial
> broadband service in the first place (setting the stage for the
> LightSquared debacle).

That's why the FCC granted a "conditional" waiver of the rules.  It was 
politically expedient, and I would imagine that the engineers at the FCC 
thought "there's no way they'll be able to demonstrate no interference"




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