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Buffalo on the Hit List

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SirRoxalot

Catching up on Tom Taylor...

"The compromise would tentatively close these existing field offices – Houston,
Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle, San Diego, Tampa, Norfolk and Buffalo. Kansas
City will be closed, but there will be a “rotation” of outside staffers visiting
for a couple of days every month. Anchorage and San Juan would be handled by
third-party contractors with FCC badges."

So, the Buffalo FCC office will be closed. We'll have the already overburdened NYC office handling complaints. Two (yes, TWO) "Tiger Teams" policing all the pirates around the nation. The northern border of the US - including the area closest to Canada's largest city - will go unpoliced. Buffalo, Detroit, and Seattle will all be closed. Chicago will be the only office anywhere near the Canadian border.

I know that we've only had a "resident agent" here for a long time, but at least the FCC had a presence in the shadow of Toronto. With the proliferation of translators and LP stations, the FM band is overflowing. With the prospect of Canada switching over to HD TV, and with proposed expansion of TV "white space" networking, it seems like a bad time to be cutting back in general, especially in border areas.

Maybe Chuck Schumer and other Senators from Northern states need to exert a little political juice in this case. Some may argue that we're "over-radioed" in northern states because allocations were created before the population shifts of the last few decades, but that just makes the likelihood of problems WORSE - and international issues more likely.
 
I wasn't aware we were at war with Canada.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but the FCC doesn't really see itself in the police business. Or the radio protection business. They had to be reminded of their role by Congress. If it was simply up to the FCC, they would have shut down ALL of the offices. The FCC has been basically de-funded by Congress. Their operating expenses come from selling spectrum and levying fines. Anything else they do costs money. The government isn't a whole lot different from the companies they regulate. Everyone is in sales.
 
Took my FCC exam in Buffalo in 1976 and in 1978. Failed Element 9 twice, asked for a waiver so as to not wait 2 months again to take the test so I could finally pass it. Still remember the lady who announced our names with the test results. Rosalie Bataglia. That embarrassing walk of shame from the test room after your name was announced in front of everyone else letting them know you failed.
 
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I was schooled well enough to pass it the first time. That's a tribute to patience of the guy I learned from. I wasn't typically intimidated by tests, but that one certainly required my full attention, and a few butterflies seemed to be loose that day. Still at it forty-five years later.
 
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