[MRCA] CODAR

[Dennis]

You all miss the point.
Codar WAS NOT allowed. 
It was not authorized to operate on the 60mtr band at all. Stop to think for a 
minute. We SHARE the 60mtr band with a number of government & civilian entities 
which includes foreign embassies, maritime mobile etc.

What really aggravates me is that it should have simply taken a report to the 
FCC that the thing was operating, & their field engineers should have taken up 
the ball from there. It should have been the FCC that verified what was being 
operated, by whom, on what freq, etc. Not the civilian populous. That's what 
they have field engineers for.

 As it was, it took a one year effort by hams who were forced to prove the 
source of the interference, who was transmitting it, etc. After a great deal of 
effort to locate the source, they had to record the CODAR system, then while 
recording have the University momentarily shut their system down, to verify that 
it was indeed their system causing the interference.

This could have all been done by the FCC in a few minutes! But currently, all 
the FCC can do is figure out what part of the spectrum they put up for sale 
next.

 
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