[BC] ARRL Wins a Round vs FCC...

[Alan Kline]

Well, as I said in the subject, ARRL won a round--not the whole war. At 
least now, the FCC is required to open up *all* of the records and 
justify its decision. If they do that, there's probably no more room for 
court appeal. At that point, ARRL and other public-safety spectrum users 
may have to turn to Congress...

ak

Mike McCarthy wrote:
> It's not a big victory by any sense of the imagination.  The ARRL won a 
> remand of the studies used being published completely intact  for review 
> and comment and for the FCC to more completely argue why it selected a 
> non-standard extraction reduction factor.   It lost on the two big 
> issues of how the FCC instituted the service under Section 302 of the 
> Comm Act. and the fact that the FCC made the IX issue a minor matter as 
> opposed to a total shut down when involving mobile operations.