"Fractenna" wrote in message
...
If you don't understand the ultimate utility of the HF spectrum then
rolls
eyes... SWL includes a whole world more than just broadcasting. Your
ignorance, or at least a very poor assumption, is showing. And BCB...

Thanks for your opinion.

Firsty, I am not the FCC. This issue was duly considered and carefully
thought
through, so please don't use me as a proxy: they know more about the SW
BCB
than me.


With the caveat that I think the FCC is about the most open example of our
Federal government, I have to point out that "due consideration" is a real
hoot. Oh sure, issues move along in their majestic dance through the FCC's
bureaucracy, but, after all the technical discussion has been input, there's
a big, heavy political thumb on the scales of justice. Every FCC
Commissioner is a political appointee, and they are all professional
administrators, without a trace of experience in electromagnetics or
communications theory. Each Commissioner has his own philosophy that he
tries to bend the FCC toward, with top-down influence and an eye toward his
next career step. To think that hot-button political issues (internet access
for everyone) and special interests (what politician doesn't need money, if
only to periodically fund his re-election) don't guide the technical issues
is to be willfully naive.

Shocking as this may be, Fractenna (and my dog) just might know more about
some aspects of electromagnetics than one or more of the FCC Commissioners.
OTOH, FCC Commissioners have more friends, dress better, get more sex, and
are far more wealthy and articulate than either.


Ed
wb6wsn