I don't view FCC "bashing" as a political issue. Those of us who have
worked in industry and for the the FCC rules (CFR 47) know and feel what
has transpired over the intervening 40 or so years. It's not political.
It's reality.
Any of us amateur radio operators, especially those of us who reside in our
cities, are painfully aware of our drastically raised noise floors due to
the negligence of FCC to enforce their own rules and regulations.
40 or so years ago, I used to be able to sit in fromt of an HP 8566 with a
preamp and an 18-inch cliplead connected to the preamp input and marvel at
the lack of "signals". Set the SA to span 1.8 through 30 MHz or 150
through 1 GHz. There really wasn't much there. Today the HF portion is
full of SMPS, wallwarts, and home solar power RFI to the extent that in
cities, it registers 35 to 50 dB above the noise floor. At VHF/UHF it
registers 10 to 35 dB above the setup noise floor. Yes.........where is
the FCC!!??!!
These days there is very little, if any real, enforcement. When I was
first licensed as an amateur in 1960 (passed the Novice exam over
Thanksgiving in 1959) any amateur feared receiving a "pink slip" from FCC.
ARRL also instigated a volunteer force to contact "bad signals" before FCC
could find them and issue a "pink slip" and possible fines. Yes, I well
remember those days! They're gone in the name of "small government".
I do not consider this political, please, it's reality.
I'll attempt to keep my fingers off the keyboard in the future addressing
this issue.
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 5:25 PM Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> W0LEV and I were both around in the early '80s when the FCC was gutted
> by Congress in the name of Small Government. Before that, the FCC had a
> very strong enforcement arm -- broadcasters and manufacturers lived in
> fear of FCC inspectors enforcing our country's laws about our radio
> spectrum. But big business didn't like that, the FCC's budget was
> slashed, their Regulations were scaled back, both with adherence to
> technical Rules for broadcasters, and for conformance by manufacturers
> to keeping equipment clean. Enforcement staff was drastically cut. Field
> offices where the enforcement officers worked were closed. In following
> decades, additional cuts were made.
>
> These are facts of history. Anyone who worked anywhere around
> broadcasting before and after can tell you about it. My first job in
> broadcasting was in 1960, at a station in my hometown that had both an
> 5kW AM station and a TV station that had gone on the air in 1947. This
> is not a "political statement."
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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