[time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared has been given thegoahead

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Thu Feb 3 22:20:39 UTC 2011


and as posting in another email

“We conclude
that the pleading cycle for LightSquared’s request — in which the
Comment Public Notice was issued on November 19, 2010, with comments
due on December 2, 2010, and reply comments due on December 9, 2010 —
is sufficient for the decisions we make herein.”

Happy Thanksgiving ...

-pete

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:14 PM,  <clayj at nwlink.com> wrote:
> This is not the first time the FCC "politicians" have ignored their own
> technical staff.  A while back there was the same sort of flap around BPL
> (Broadband Internet over Power Lines) - after several years of "trials"
> and lots of taxpayer money wasted, it's basically been declared a
> "non-starter".
>
> So - I wrote my Legislators and asked them to look into this.   Patty
> Murray's (Sen D-WA) office responded with a query to the FCC, asking them
> to respond to me.  I'm certain that my other Senator will do the same
> thing, as will my CongressCritter (well, maybe not, he's not as responsive
> on this stuff) - in any case, if we get folks from all 50 states (or even
> half) to do the same thing, the FCC will be inundated with "Legislative
> Requests" on this, which will at least annoy the heck out of them and MAY
> cause them to either review this decision or at least THINK before they do
> it again.
>
> Clay
> Amateur Radio N7QNM
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I would by no means argue with any of those points. The only thing I would
>> add is that 40,000 transmitters is a *lot* of hardware to fill in gaps.
>> You
>> could do a pretty good job covering the whole country with that much
>> hardware. The same math that goes for jamming, also works pretty well for
>> coverage.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>> Behalf Of Robert Atkinson
>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:54 PM
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared has been given
>> thegoahead
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> First I'm in the UK so this does not directly affect me. I do have some
>> slightly independent comments.
>> Firstly the Garmin tests seemed very reasonable and erred to favor
>> LightSquared. They were free field in an anecohic chamber. There was an L1
>> notch filter in the output of the LightSquared simulator. I'd guess the
>> Aviation GPS was worse because of A and older design and B It will only
>> give
>> valid outputs if it is sure the signal is OK.
>> On the politcal side, LightSquared are supposed to be supplying nationwide
>> satellite service. The ground stations are "fill in" for heavy use areas.
>> This is seamless with the sat service so they "had" to be the same
>> band. So
>> they got permission to use the band. What is the betting that once the
>> service is established they will drop or price hike the sat service? That
>> would save them the $115,000,000 per year that they are paying Intelsat.
>>
>> Robert G8RPI.
>>
>>
>>
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