[BC] FCC Seeking Extra Funds to go after Pirates

[Neal Newman]

Funny thing I drove with an FCC inspector one day in his Ford expedition 
Cannot remember if he was from the NYC or Philly field office
He had a touch screen windows XP computer with full Doppler finding with a map overlay
 And spectrum analyzer  full recording audio and data  storage for later playback.
Fully tunable  I believe from 5 hz to2.5 gig
It was awesome gear. Wish I had one. 
 Still trying to figure out if it was software one could buy or if it was custom written by some Govt programmer agency just for the FCC?
Well worth my tax dollars from my point of view. Just wish they would let some volunteers use the gear to find the pirates for them. Then they could make their own got case using the data.
Neal Newman- East Coast Regional Engineer-MRBI


On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jerry Mathis <thebeaver32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One Broadcast Industry newsletter is saying that FCC Chairman Genachowski is seeking extra funding (about $2.5 million) to enhance the Enforcement Bureau's direction-finding equipment to enable them to track down more pirates. Along with that, they are asking for about $1.1 million to replace their aging fleet of trucks that carry said equipment.
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> Looks like we are about to get our wish  :)
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