They do.

And under our Constitution and laws, the FCC ensures, to the best
of it's ability, that this FINITE RESOURCE will be accessible to all.
Of course electronic anarchists like N9OGL who believe that anyone
should do anything they like would make it impossible for anyone to use

it at all.


The finite resourse no longer hold true anymore thanks to digital
radio.....The point of that was that the FCC has over the last 10/20
years, has bent over backworks for the "special interest" and some of
the"special interest" goals sometimes do not reflect the public
interest.

OK.

Let's remove the FCC from the picture for a second. You go ahead
and fire up your LPFM station on 107.9 (or whatever frequency you
choose).


I live next town over and I want to operate on 107.9...Or
worse yet, I just want to jam you becasue I think your "opinion" or
programming format suck. Who ya gonna call now?


State or local agencies? OK...So Illinois allows you to operate
here...but just across the state line in Podunk, Missouri, THEY
"license" me to operate on that frequency...at 1500 watts, because in
MO they define "low power" as anything below 10,000 watts.


I'd usually expect a rational person to see where this is going,
but hey...it's Todd...

Under the Communication Act of 1934 the FCC has juridiction over
interstate and foreign commerce via wire or radio, Intrastate
communications is the juridiction of the state.

3. Not only should a person have the right to listen to not only
the broadcast services but all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

even the cellular band which is part of the radio spectrum and there
by
belong to the people.


Hey Todd...waddaya say I park a van outside your place and start
monitoring your cell and cordless phones. I further record them and
play them at local venues. Since everyone can listen to everything
under your "plan", nothing you say on "the phone" is protected.

No, the Electronoic Communication Privacy Act of 1986 was pushed by the
Cellphone companies because they didn't want to encrypt their phone
systems which they had the ability to do.

4. The people should have the right to choice his satellite
package. The person should have the right if he wants the Network
feeds
off the satellite and wants to pay for them be allowed to buy them
regardless if he recieve local broadcasting.


Gee, Todd...We have that here in Tennessee...What's up with you in
Ill-annoyed?

This post was written long before "Local channels" were placed on the
satellites. Before that (thanks to the National Association of
Broadcasters) if you lived in a alleged "contour" then you were not
allowed to get feeds off the satellite. The NAB pushed congress to pass
a law to protect "local services"


5. The FCC should eliminate any useless services on the
electromagnetic spectrum (There is still some first generation radio
services on the air) Any new service like Digital Cellular Phones
should
be phased into the old cell band instead of allocating them spectrum.



You are incompetent to hold broadcast licensure, and only hold
Amateur licensure by the grace of God...Why would they consider your
"ideas" for wireless telephone technology?

No dickhead, there is still first generation services on the
electromagnetic spectrum, and secondly instead of allocation new
frequencies for digital phones have the cell service phase out analog
phones and put digital phones in that same band, instead of giving them
new spectrum. The point is instead of allocation spectrum for a newer
version of a old service have that service group install in the new
service on the old and phase out the old...again this was write a long
time ago



Oh, heck yeah! Let's let anyone who get's it in thier head to do so

to have a license! And since we're loading the bands up with all these

citizen-broadcasters, let's screw the technical standards which help to

maximize the already dwindling spectrum! What's a little intermod or
bleed-over among broadcasters! Live out on the fringes of overlapping
stations? Too bad

No, I want the FCC to do is their JOB, the FCC is authorized to grant
licenses, and consider waivers, The Federal Courts has gone farther
stating the FCC MUST consider waiver, the bottom line is the FCC has
not once done that. As for "dwindling spectrum" again digtal radio/
television has pretty well put an end to that. A Digital TV station can
run more then one station on the same frequency, the same with digital
radio. But hey you licnesed CB operators are still using that old
"analog" system and basical don't know **** outside your own backyard

8. The FCC should stop believing in this "burden on the commission"
because there is always going to be a burden regardless. instead the
FCC should try to get things done.


But Todd! You'd just throw them aside!

Besides, Todd...And I know this will be painful for you to accept,
but it's ill-informed, narrowminided, functioanlly illiterate IDIOTS
like you that create the burden in the first place

First off you ****ing COCK SUCKER, what I was refering to was the FCC
pushing the burden of proof onto people in the courts, The old saying
you innocent into proven guilty is not true to the FCC is more like
your guilty until you prove yourself innocent, In some instance the FCC
has already made their decision before all the facts are gathered.

9. The FCC should work more closer to the people then the big
companies and organizations. The FCC believes they serve the public's

intrest but in reality the FAA serves the public's intrest better
then
the FCC because the FAA listens to the people.


And what was the last NPRM from the FAA YOU responded to,
Todd?

What "issues" has the FAA addressed that the FCC has failed to do
so, Toddie?


No dumb ass, the point is the FCC should serve the public's interest a
lot better then they do, instead the serve the special interest more
The special interest is only there to serve one person...themselves.
The point was the FAA serves the public interest BETTER then the FCC
does, Just look at the new sports license they recently passed.

10. The Question of what's Interstate and what's Interstate should
be answered.


The point of 10 was, and although it's screwed up i'll explain. The
question of Interstate Communications is not defined, simple for this
reason. the courts and congress believe that ALL RADIO transmissions,
despite their power, antenna height, and frequency is interstate by
nature. This stems from a federal court case dealing with a radio
station from the 1930's and later to CB cases in the late 50's on to
present time.

Sure there has been a few cases with
interferning with
the aircraft band as a pilot myself I wouldn't want that to happen.
However there has been a lot of low power services out there that
didn't
cause interfernce which out weights the cases that do.


And which case that DOES cause interference to the avaition
allocations is OK, Todd? How many episodes of interference are OK to
the safety of flight?

Do YOU want to be on the flight that winds up two miles short of
the runway because some idiot LIKE YOU was exercising his "free speech"

on an ILS frequency? Do you want to be the guy who kept an FAA
facility from hearing a distress call or warning of a hijacking just so

you could transmit your "bulletins" on "pirate TV"...?!?!


The problem with interference of the aircraft band is although there
has been cases of interference there is really no "proof" that it
happened. TV is a different matter because it is higher up on the
spectrum and the olds of interference is lower, compare to a "pirate
radio station" I will point out though that Unlicensed Broadcast has
interfere with airports and so has Licensed Broadcast.

I am against
thre
LOW POWER RADIO PETITION because to me it is a quick fixs the FCC
should
allow that service now with waivers (which their rules allow) but
they
will not. I did apply for a license twice and both times it was
returned
so my view is to HELL with them.


I am sure your whole life has been full of people realizing what
an idiot you are and did their best to keep you from making a fool out
of yourself or harming others with your "me first" attitudes.

We can only hope the FCC will keep it up.


No dickhead, the point was the LPFM service was a quick fix, the FCC
had the power before creating that service, but the Mass Media Bureau
didn't and would not act upon it. (ie. they wouldn't consider
applications and waiver for stations less then 100 watts, although the
Federal Courts told them they MUST consider waivers.)

(I am kinda hoping K2ASP might "drop a dime" on some old friends
in Gettysburg to start the mill moving on Toddie now!)

GO FO IT!!! I DARE YOU!!! but you better know what your getting
youself into....

Oh one more thing this "chaos" which
accured back in the 20's wasn't by Low power operators but by greedy

Commercial operators and the Navy.


Sure it was by "low power" operators! There were "broadcast
stations" popping up on every hotel and newspaper building across the
country!

I would really suggest you go back and read the history of radio,
including the early years. because that's where that statement is
coming from.

Right, but there is a lot of broadcast services that don't cross the
line. for example my 8 watt Low power television transmitter which
runs
on UHF will not cross the state line because 1. i'm in the middle of

the
state. 2. the power of 8 watts and the antenna height of 60 ft 3.
the
terrain. fact is my station doesnot cross the state line and there
by
the FCC doesn't have the juridiction over my signal.


So...it's OK if you're "in the middle of the state"...But what
about folks who live close to state lines? Or people who live at
higher elevations and even low power carries far? Or how about folks
who live in realtively small states ie: Rhode Island, Delaware, etc?

They're just squat out of luck?


Face it, Todd...Not everyone can be or even SHOULD be a
"broadcaster".


L E A S T of all a racist, incompetent, functionally illiterate
idiot like you! But there is an "up" side...You do have a future as a
stand up comic...You've had us in stitches for days!

again this has to do with intrastate vs Interstate
communications.....at lease I'm not some dickhead ham radio operator
who gets on a newsgroup and plays HAM COP.


Todd O'Dochartaigh N9OGL