#IN MEMORIUM…ODE TO CBM
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Especially, do you worry that the FCC is so busy pursuing a conservative social
agenda that its work of supervising the free market is getting shorte shrift
than usual. Why should it take more than a week for the FCC to approve a
product? Can't they hire more technicians to test the stuff?
Regards,
Jim
Jim:
First, the FCC doesn't test anything! The responsibility for testing
is up to the manufacturer. We must test and re-test until our products
pass, then, and only then, do we submit the proper paper work (which includes
the test data from a certified testing facility) to the FCC for their formal
approval. The FCC's task is that of paper shuffeling only.
Second, I personally have seen perfectly filled out forms and test
reports take 117 days to be returned as approved.
Third, the FCC claims tight budgets restrict their preformance. They
say that they have so many areas to police (from commercial T.V. to CB Radio)
that they just can't do it all on the budget allowed, and FCC Part 15 Type B
approvals are not the highest priority.
Well, I could go on, but I think you get the idea. RED TAPE MAX.
E.J. Lippert II
C Ltd. – (316) 267-6322
Ed,
So, going back to our critical path charts, we see that a significant task
in releasing a new product is the FCC approval task. Now, going back to my
basic systems analysis courses, which I had as an undergraduate, we can see
that ALL tasks within a critical path analysis may not impact the release date
of a product, only the "longest" paths effect the release time. Sorry to say
it, but if they would have talked to you, they would have realized that 117
days was possible! Strangely enough, people get tired of promises pretty
quick, and they get tired of "pipe dreams" when it comes to purchase even
quicker. Mike