In article , "Carl R. Stevenson"
writes:

What
money are you talking about? (If you say "the manufacturers" that's
baloney.
I haven't seen a SINGLE comment filed on the current round of petitions by
any manufacturer ...)

All that's really happened so far in the "current round" is a flurry of
petitions. There are more in process that don't have RM numbers yet.

Back during the restructuring NPRM, there were comments from manufacturers.

In fact, the most-often-quoted-by-FCC commenter in the R&O to 98-143 wasn't
ARRL or NCI or NCVEC or some individual radio amateur.

It was Kenwood.

73 de Jim, N2EY