In re: Delete, Delete, Delete FCC looks to eliminate rules and regulations

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I'd like to delete the FCC ULS and start fresh, it's obvious the people overseeing it's efficient operation were deleted long ago.
The people responsible for the FCC ULS are probably retired and the system is now in the hands of a younger crowd which never bothered to learn COBOL.
 

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Rolling standards back to Tier 3 would be a reasonable compromise.

I'd be OK with that. The DPF/SCR systems haven't ever given me any troubles. DEF is pretty cheap if you buy it at a place that sells it bulk.
I'm pretty impressed with the fuel economy these two trucks get, and they have plenty of power for what I need.

But I know it's different on the commercial side.

The attention-seeking idiots who deliberately overfuel to roll coal are just that - idiots.

Yeah, there's a level of stupidity there that is just mind boggling. Anyone that puts that much effort into purposefully making things worse for other people don't have a place in any society.
 

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Allowing new receivers to access the old analog cellular frequencies is what I'd like to see.

Just for fun, I'd like to see David Minster stripped of his Amateur license and both his friends and he banished from the League, but that's more of a 'rub the lamp and get three wishes' dream.
 

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Allowing new receivers to access the old analog cellular frequencies is what I'd like to see.

I've seen this mentioned before.

I agree, it's no longer necessary. And anyone with an SDR or spectrum analyzer can listen there.

But what do scanner listeners think they are missing? It's wideband data emissions. I mean, if you really love listening to loud buzzing, I'm cool with that, but the analog cellular calls are long gone and there isn't secret unencrypted analog law enforcement traffic hiding there.
 

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I'd be OK with that. The DPF/SCR systems haven't ever given me any troubles. DEF is pretty cheap if you buy it at a place that sells it bulk.
I'm pretty impressed with the fuel economy these two trucks get, and they have plenty of power for what I need.

But I know it's different on the commercial side.



Yeah, there's a level of stupidity there that is just mind boggling. Anyone that puts that much effort into purposefully making things worse for other people don't have a place in any society.
Yeah, for personal vehicles that spend 80-90% of their time in motion with the engine loaded up enough to passively regen the DPF, it works fine and the systems have gotten better with time. The problems tend to show up in heavy equipment and vocational trucks that spend a lot of time idling.

On a more RF-related note, I'm not coming up with a ton that could be done on the regulatory side by the FCC. As far as federal agencies go it's by far one of the less intrusive and enforcement actions are generally limited to ending gross stupidity. Possibly shifting some low-power business frequencies to license-by-rule like MURS, and allowing digital voice? Private on-site business communications without paperwork burden or vendor lock (DTR/DLR) would be nice for a lot of small businesses, though MURS largely fits the bill.
 

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Would be nice if the NTIA database became public. (That is the fed side of frequency licensing and management for those that don't know...)
 

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Would be nice if the NTIA database became public. (That is the fed side of frequency licensing and management for those that don't know...)
 

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Would be nice if the NTIA database became public. (That is the fed side of frequency licensing and management for those that don't know...)
That was done by Executive Order (President Reagan), so President Trump would have to issue another EO reversing it.
 

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I'm always hoping we can go to LIFETIME ham licenses.
I think I heard that some countries do this.

What's the point of renewing a license anyway?
Well, revenue collection, of course.

Flush out those that have gone SK. But there's probably other ways to accomplish that without charing money.
 
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