On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:44:11 GMT, robert casey wrote:

You seriously think that they'd select someone who actually
understands the physics of radio in charge of the FCC? Get
real....

Yet the best chairman that the agency had was Dick Wiley, who was
there in the mid-1970s. Although he was and still is a top-notch
communications lawyer, he had a very good engineering advisor and
he listened to what the latter told him. He sat in on a seminar that
I was co-chairing on TV technical standards, and from the few
questions that he raised we could all see that he was understanding
a lot of what we were discussing.

Unfortunately, his Carter=era successor (Charlie Ferris, who was Tip
O'Neill's bag carrier) brought in the economists and "policy" types,
downplayed the engineers, and the succeeding chairmen were even worse.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane