HamRadioNow: Your Repeater; Your Rules. FCC's Laura Smith at Pacificon

Pretty slick.

 

Well ; I have to say you've done your homework!

 

So, the bottom line here seems to be that a non-technical lawyer/lobbyist with no actual experience or knowledge of propagation, radio technique, or any of the subtleties of operation, is going to be "coordinating" enforcement (aka aggressive letter-writing with no accountability for publicized errors) using a computer and a telephone, from a cubicle in Gettysburg. The data set will be hearsay reports from the quasi-trained, biased, unprofessional 'helpers' of a lobbyist organization based in Newington, Connecticut. According to the Energy and Commerce Committee, there have been massive errors in procedure, rules interpretation, and due process at the FCC. This plan heralds more and greater failures to come.

http://tinyurl.com/j9pljmk

 

So no one asked her about all the dirty things going on on 435? things that would make the SALTIEST old Sailor Blush bright red? "YOUR REPEATER YOUR RULES"? So if the owner is fine with all the dirty things then its perfectly OK? wish I'd gone to Pacificon now!

 

Don't forget, we also can't discipline lobbyist-sponsored contest interference, because that's a "one off" right? We all know the same handful of rude contest ops interfere with ongoing QSOs in every contest (about once a week) but they get a pass to interfere because it's a "one off" or some equally partisan BS related to unequal protection under the law. How about we enforce the rules equally?

The Fifth Amendment's reference to “due process” is only one of many promises of protection the Bill of Rights gives citizens against the federal government. Administrative agencies have hidden behind bogus interpretations by inexpert cubicle critters for years. It's time to restore the separation of powers and put an end to any partisan lawyer/lobbyist/buraucrat 'discretion' that violates the statutes and the rule of law.

https://verdict.justia.com/2016/07/...ration-powers-restoration-act-2016-sign-times

 

"After algorithmic language analysis of the entire thread and comparison to the VE7KFM.com (under the real VE7KFM's stolen call sign) White Hat Intelligence assesses with high confidence that Brian Crow, K3VR did most, if not all of N1FM's "homework". Further: White Hat Intelligence assesses with high confidence that N1FM's part of this thread is an extension, by other means, of Brian Crow, K3VR's War of Retribution on the FCC. Further: WHI assesses with high confidence that this and several other current threads on QRZ bear many clues that there is a full blown Brian Crow Bully Gang operation underway."

Thanks to White Hat Intelligence for sharing these assessments.

73,
Mikey
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Whew.... "algorithmic analysis" and "White Hat Intelligence" --- Is that all based in the same trailer?

That's the best conspiracy theory I've heard all week. I have 208 likes for 266 comments, so I must be doing something right. Take a look at Greg Walden's point of view. He's W7EQI, the new Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, with oversight of the FCC.

Hint: We're all in it together. PLEASE take your meds Mikey....

https://energycommerce.house.gov/search/node/fcc

 

Isn't it amazing how "rules" and "enforcement" are considered good and sound policy under one administration, and then considered harmful, wrongheaded, hurtful, and unworthy, under the next administration?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Federal Communications Commissioners say the new administration should reverse many significant policies set by the telecommunications and cable regulatory body under Barack Obama.

FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly said at an event at the National Press Club in Washington that the FCC under the new President needs to "undo the more harmful policies adopted by the current commission. ... The policy direction chosen in these instances was wrongheaded, harmful to consumers and the industry, costly, and ultimately unworthy of continuation."

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said he hoped the commission would eliminate many regulations, propose fewer new actions and seek guidance from Congress before taking many actions. He said the commission should take a "weed whacker" to unneeded rules.


"Next year’s commission should consider acting quickly to reverse any damaging policies put into place over the last eight years and in the last few weeks of this administration," O'Rielly said.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/republic...rge-quick-reversal-obama-rules-190251151.html


FCC commissioner Michael O'Rielly is ready to join his fellow commissioner Ajit Pai in clearing out the "regulatory underbrush" under a new Administration.

"As my colleague Commissioner Pai and I have pointed out, any attempt to roll out a new policy on this front can easily be reviewed and potentially reversed within weeks," he said, but suggested there could still be collateral damage. "[T]he underlying document could still be out there, waiting to be dug up like a time capsule years from now and cited as some sort of precedent," he said. "Next year’s Commission should consider acting quickly to reverse any damaging policies put into place over the last eight years and in the last few weeks of this Administration. It should likewise close out any problematic notices and dockets."

O'Rielly said he looked forward to helping the new FCC, under whoever leads it, "undo harmful policies, clear regulatory underbrush, develop and execute a strong pro-growth, pro-innovation agenda, and overhaul the Commission’s arcane processes and its organization."

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ne...o-rating-gift-net-neutrality-activists/161666

"Any potential action the Bureau may be considering can be reviewed and potentially reversed within weeks," Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said in a statement issued late last week.

Commissioner Ajit Pai also criticized the agency for doing an "end-run around Congress's clear instructions."

He added: "Any unilateral action taken by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at the Chairman’s direction in the next 49 days can quickly be undone by that same bureau after January 20, 2017."

http://www.mediapost.com/publicatio...publicans-slam-decision-to-crack-down-on.html

(N1FM does not endorse the sentiments or activities of hams who make unwarranted personal attacks)

 

Christmas Laura~Grams have been sent to hams on 7200 and 3843.

Now watch closely as cautious hams gather elsewhere to do exactly the same things they were doing before. Watch also as ARRL parrots these "actions" 3 or 4 times in HUGE HEADLINES as the "return of enforcement" or some equally utter nonsense.

History and the law of unintended consequences dictates that affected hams will migrate to other frequencies - but nothing will change. It's really time to find someone in the FCC who understands how to work with hams in a productive manner that will create real change.

Hams (mostly male and over 50) will not respond to a mommy figure scolding them with meaningless letters.

Riley Hollingsworth was not loved by all, but he DID manage to arrange creative settlements, via respectful negotiation that often served to calm the waters when needed. Hearings and Trials were rare as hen's teeth.

In today's society, headlines and letters and threats of endless trials only create a larger and larger subset of hams looking for negative attention.



The same is true on the internetz with the redditz and the chanz and etc. We're not in Kansas anymore. People don't respond the way they used to.

Baiting the authorities has become a sport, and increasingly it's a more and more popular spectator sport because the majority of the population has discovered that the system is flawed. Justice has been rigged to protect the powerful, the politically connected, the enfranchised, those who can afford to mount a defense, those countless clueless bureaucrats protected by the federal unions, and sovereign immunity, and etc.

Police are being randomly shot in the head as an outlet for the seething anger experienced by the most disenfranchised communities. Different enforcement methods are needed, but our regulatory agencies are most often 10-15 years behind the technological and sociological curve. Hopefully, some of this will turn around, with better process, more power for IG staff, more transparency, and a return to the rule of law as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, but there's no doubt this will take time and a thorough house cleaning.

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