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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