20 Jun
2015
20 Jun
'15
12:40 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:20 PM, William Lewis <kg6baj(a)n1oes.org> wrote:
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I find it a little odd to see all the responses to Brian's Post.
While the point of logging in to the Portal once a year has the secondary
benefit of telling a computer that you're alive and well, the primary point
seems to be identifying those users who have gone away and didn't bother to
tell anyone. Let's face it, there are a lot of people who go away and don't
say a word and then the allocations start to clutter up in the Portal again.
Hit the nail on the head. There is so much cruft in the DNS tables
that I imported the information into a database and ran the FCC
database against it. There were roughly 1800 entries out of 3700-ish
that matched expired/cancelled/revoked callsigns. And that's just for
the US alone - not including active licensees who just lost interest
in 44net. As BrianK would point out, there is no way that the DNS
table should be this big.
If one doesn't have a good idea of their current utilization, how can
one do capacity planning?