[CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!

[Jeff Davis]

At 10:55 AM 9/28/2003, W2AGN wrote:
>I have often wondered why the crooks and morally corrupt are re-elected 
>again and
>again. I have wondered why the people put up with this.

More curiously, have you ever considered that "term limits" is the public's 
way of saying to the elected, "please, please pass a LAW that will prevent 
us from continually re-electing the same morons over and over again"...?

>Folks, this is an example of where Ham radio is going. This "Ham" will be 
>happy with
>his Broadband Internet, 2M Repeater, and Echolink.

Assuming that radio amateurs will be able to do nothing about the 
interference is a fairly large leap. About a hundred years ago this same 
government said, "let the amateurs have 200 meters and down, that ought to 
get rid of them" and of course the rest is history.

If BPL becomes ubiquitous (and I'm certain that it will) then hams will 
find a way to work around it. Advances in DSP encoding and decoding over 
just the last few years has proven again and again that common, patterned 
interference can be eliminated. Technology will save the day in this case.

Anyone who thinks that a special interest like amateur radio, with its 
600,000 members in the US is more 'important' than the 100 million 
Americans who WANT broadband Internet access not only have their heads in 
the sand but apparently, they also don't understand democracy.

73 de Jeff