"Phil Kane" wrote in message
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On 10 Mar 2005 12:24:42 -0800, K4YZ quoted:

A few minutes later,
in what seemed an odd remark to make, Senator Clinton stated were
it her decision, the FCC should have been dismantled and shut down
years ago.

Her husband tried, and almost succeeded, by putting that bozo Reed
Hundt in as chairman. Need I spout off again about the "early field
retirements" of 1995 and the big bloodletting of 1996?

Of course, she was referring to "the other" FCC, the Michael Powell
show. The one that she and all the politicians see and deal with is
not the one that we hams see and deal with. She wouldn't know "ours"
if it came up and zapped her in her .....

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane



I had occasion to meet and chat with Reed Hundt a few times. There
is no doubt in my mind the man did not know his proverbial ass
from a hole in the ground when it came to functioning as head of the
FCC. Incompetent comes to mind, but that is far too polite to describe
the man. However, he was well-connected, which once again proves
it is not what you know but WHO you know (the Clintons).

73,

Sharok

I had occasion to meet and chat with Reed Hundt a few times. There
is no doubt in my mind the man did not know his proverbial ass
from a hole in the ground when it came to functioning as head of the
FCC. Incompetent comes to mind, but that is far too polite to describe
the man. However, he was well-connected, which once again proves
it is not what you know but WHO you know (the Clintons).


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

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.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

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.


ONe example of this was AM stereo. Instead of picking one of
5 or so proposed systems as the standard, they said "let the
marketplace decide". With 5 possible selections, the net result
was that AM stereo was stillborn.

When stereo sound for TV was proposed, the EIA (electronics
industry association) got together and hammered out just
one proposal to submit to the FCC. And the FCC said
"okay, you can do it". The EIA did essentially what
the FCC should have done, but with the AM stereo disaster,
the EIA knew that the only way the FCC couldn't screw it
up was to present only one proposal. SO that's what was done.