When the FCC rolled out its new web site on April 7, it was discovered that a wiring error had crept into the FCC seal. As an engineer and as a former FCC inspector, Dane Ericksen, Senior Engineer and 25-year veteran with Hammett & Edison, was bothered. The next day, he sent an e-mail message to Chairman Genachowski, pointing out the error, though he hardly expected anything so trivial to receive prompt attention, if any at all.
Well, it’s nice to know that government IS responsive: on or about May 20, the FCC fixed the seal wiring error, to sighs of relief surely everywhere.
There are still documents on the FCC web site with the wiring error in the FCC seal (for example, the most recent 2009-2014 FCC Strategic Plan), but at least the web page is fixed. Now to fix the large, raised relief version of the FCC seal in the FCC meeting room in Washington, DC. And the FCC need not go back to Congress for a supplemental appropriation; a few minutes with a small brush and some dark blue paint would allow any radio engineer to cover the extra, gold shorting line, and no one would daydream in that meeting room again — at least, not about this problem.
Thanks, Chairman Genachowski! Here’s hoping that all future challenges at the FCC are so clearly defined and easily met.