From an email........
Action Alert!!!
Happy New Year to you all!
As you are aware, the issue of LightSquared’s interference with GPS reception (as has been verified in testing) continues to be a major concern for us and those we serve as Professionals.
LightSquared is pressuring the FCC to allow it to move ahead with its plans and disregard the recent independent test results.
We need your help, and that of your constituents, in urging the FCC not to allow this happen. The information attached to this message provides details regarding how to submit your comments to the FCC.
Please share this message and the attached information with your respective contact lists.
Please contact me or our Government Affairs Consultant Laurence Socci (laurence@theclagroup.com) if you have questions.
Thanks,
Curt
Curt Sumner, LS
Executive Director, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
6 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 403
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
240-632-9716, ext. 106
curtis.sumner@acsm.net
703-509- 3601 (cell)
Attachment to the email:
ACTION ALERT
LightSquared is Pressuring the FCC to Affirm Its License and Let It Begin Work --- Even Though Recent Tests Showed Interference With High-Precision GPS Will Occur.
As you may have heard, LightSquared recently petitioned the FCC to affirm its license and allow it to begin work --- even though independent tests showed that interference with high-precision GPS will occur if LightSquared goes forward with its plan.
The FCC Needs To Hear From You!
The FCC will ultimately decide if, when and how LightSquared can proceed with its plan. If the FCC only hears from LightSquared, it will grant their request. We need to make it clear that LightSquared should not be allowed to go forward until it is shown that their plan will not interfere with high-precision GPS. We need to tell the FCC that not only the surveying industry will be harmed, but so will the hundreds of thousands of people who use the data surveyors produce. “We need you to send a letter to the FCC telling them that as a user of high-precision GPS, you oppose LightSquared’s request (which ignores the recent independent test results) to affirm its license and its request to go forward with its plan”.
Your letter should be addressed to:
Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St. SW
Washington, DC 20554
Re: LightSquared Subsidiary, LLC
Ex Parte Communication. IB Docket No. 11-109
IBSF File No. SAT-MOD-20101118-00239
In order to submit a letter regarding the LightSquared Subsidiary LLC modification request being processed by the International Bureau, follow these steps:
1. Go to the FCC International Bureau Electronic Filing System (IBFS): http://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/pleading.do and fill in the requested information. Pleading type is a drop down menu. The selection of "letter" is most likely the correct one; "ex parte presentation notification letter" is used to report a prior oral ex parte meeting, and would not be correct here. Keep "no" checked on the "confidential information" line. Please note that there is no need to have or use an FCC Registration Number (FRN). The sender should fill out the information fields; there is no need to fill out the "Contact Information" field if the sender is posting directly.
2. When this form is complete, hit "Next Step" and you will be directed to a page requesting the FCC file number for the LightSquared modification (SAT-MOD-20101118-00239). Copy and paste the complete file number in the box. Click "Add File Numbers to Pleading List" and then check the box in the row that appears with the file number. Click "Next Step".
3. The next step is to upload your letter. Click the icon under "Replace/Attach" and proceed to fill out the description of the letter and follow the upload instructions. The letter should be in pdf format.
4. Click "Submit" after the letter is uploaded. You will receive an electronic confirmation that you can print and retain for your files.
Thank you for your help! It is vital that we do everything we can to prevent LightSquared from convincing the FCC to ignore the latest test results and allow LightSquared to go forward --- even if it hinders nationwide GPS.
> The information attached to this message provides details regarding how to submit your comments to the FCC.
Done.
The information attached to this message provides details regarding how to submit your comments to the FCC.
ALSO Done.
one more on the pile
Should we make reference to our earlier letters?
Will it make any difference if this letter is different than the other letters?
If we have sent in other letters, will this one count too?
I guess I will edit a little and send in another one.
We still should be asking if FAA is going to allow this.
We still should be asking if the Air Force is going to allow this.
We still should be asking if Homeland Security is going to allow this.
Etc.....
They have the power that surveyors and farmers and construction guys, etc. don't have.
Makes you kind of wonder why we are still talking about it!
I really don't care who went to Harvard with whom, the answer is NO!
We have something that works and has been refined over the years and we spent a lot of money on it and it is going to continue working.
Oh, I know what it is, the government is still looking for the one who has the authority to say that word, "NO"!
Rant over.
The administration has probably put out the word to find a way to allow it, if the decision can be delayed until there is a changing of the current occupant of the White House, it might go away. In the meantime it will take a lot of constant pressure to allow for the delay needed to cause Lightsquared to find another group of frequencies to use. Mighty strange that they are insisting on using frequencies that could compromise national defense and our ability to defend ourselves, what are they hiding and why?
jud
> Thank you for your submission. Please make a note of your confirmation number: IB2012000189
Done 😉
The Dude abides
Me too. Done & Done.
