If the FCC permits part 97 to turn into a complete free for all, it would be functionally identical to services in part 90 and most of part 95, and if the FCC wanted 47CFR95D to have 1500 watts ... they'd amend 47CFR95D to allow 1500 watts, not screw around endlessly with part 97 to make it a weird pale imitation of CB or business band radio or whatever.
Its just weird to see calls to turn part 97 operations into pale imitations of 47CFR95J or part 90 or similar. Historically the FCC kinda laughs at that stuff.
An excellent local government analogy would be walking into city hall and demanding the building permit department operations be amended such that they used to issue building permits, but you hate the local marina operator, so why not amend the building permit office into stealthily becoming the new local marina operator office as a way to get around existing structure; they'll laugh you right out of city hall.
Likewise the FCC is modern and hip and if you want to do 47CFR95J or part 90 operations, they're super cooperative and into helping you get licensed into those services as cheaply and quickly as possible. I'm not being sarcastic; seriously they're generally nice people to work with, mostly. They are not amused at categorical errors where someone demands they won't fill out a part 90 application because they don't feel like it so everyone else should have to modify part 97 so they can perform part 90 operations using existing part 97 structure.
Really the paragraph above is the fundamental problem expressed in the article; people unwilling or too cheap or too confused to license and operate under 47CFR95B or 47CFR95D or 47CFR95G or whatever existing services mysteriously think it would be easier for the entire rest of the world to Frankenstein part 97 into a pale and inferior imitation of the existing services they somehow, for no obvious reason, refuse to use.
Some of the rants are bizzare; "The FCC hates STEM and technology because they won't let me operate 47CFR95J in a part 97 band because I'm too lazy to read and apply for 47CFR95J service and part 97 is cheap and easy to apply for" Well, uh, no, that hate really does not exist at all, I assure you.
Its just weird to see calls to turn part 97 operations into pale imitations of 47CFR95J or part 90 or similar. Historically the FCC kinda laughs at that stuff.
An excellent local government analogy would be walking into city hall and demanding the building permit department operations be amended such that they used to issue building permits, but you hate the local marina operator, so why not amend the building permit office into stealthily becoming the new local marina operator office as a way to get around existing structure; they'll laugh you right out of city hall.
Likewise the FCC is modern and hip and if you want to do 47CFR95J or part 90 operations, they're super cooperative and into helping you get licensed into those services as cheaply and quickly as possible. I'm not being sarcastic; seriously they're generally nice people to work with, mostly. They are not amused at categorical errors where someone demands they won't fill out a part 90 application because they don't feel like it so everyone else should have to modify part 97 so they can perform part 90 operations using existing part 97 structure.
Really the paragraph above is the fundamental problem expressed in the article; people unwilling or too cheap or too confused to license and operate under 47CFR95B or 47CFR95D or 47CFR95G or whatever existing services mysteriously think it would be easier for the entire rest of the world to Frankenstein part 97 into a pale and inferior imitation of the existing services they somehow, for no obvious reason, refuse to use.
Some of the rants are bizzare; "The FCC hates STEM and technology because they won't let me operate 47CFR95J in a part 97 band because I'm too lazy to read and apply for 47CFR95J service and part 97 is cheap and easy to apply for" Well, uh, no, that hate really does not exist at all, I assure you.