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[Phil Alexander]

On 3 Jun 2006 at 3:32, Robert Meuser wrote:

> Phil
> 
> There you go again with your defeatist engineering.  A number of the NRSC 
> members do not believe in NRSC 5 and are working on something better. Put out 
> something today to meet a short term objective and turn around and then go in a 
> different direction. There are different layers of politics. You spend too much 
> time believing in the obvious.

Seeing politics and money triumph over sound engineering time after time
tends to make one cynical, and teaches the obvious has a high probability
of becoming fact.

At the time USADR bought LDR and announced formation of Ibiquity I 
posted on another list that you frequented at the time, that the
game was over and that Ibiquity would, as the only player standing
at the time, win approval. All I got was a long chorus of, "No,
that will never happen." Of course it did.

IMHO there is so much capital (political and prestige) invested in
this that, until it fails - if it does fail - there is no possibility
of technical change. The technical rules appear to have been written
for the better part of a year.

If members of the NRSC are working on something better, that is good.
It will make a good "plan B," but IMHO it will not receive consideration
until "plan A" fails in the market place and the technical faults of
the Ibiquity scheme have become visible to the world. OTOH, (I doubt
this) there is an outside chance it works well enough that the FCC
stays with "plan A."

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Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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