[Drake] Re: [Kenwood] Call your Senators (BPL)

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:04:41 -0700 (PDT)

This is serious , folks.

I am located 65 MILES from a test area...and 160, 80,
and 40 were rendered virtually unusable with any
signal below roughly s-5 to s-7 at some times.

Especially for the QRPp'ers...howw many station have
you worked with just a few hundred milliwatts?

You have maybe a few thousand of a microwatt on the
receiver's antenna...and this broadband hash puts a
few microwatts on the same antenna...what do YOU think
is going to happen?

Driving through Allentown during PPL's tests, there
were times when my car's AM radio was blotted out!

The power companies want this scheme to happen,
becaause it would be effortless revenue for them...

Make some (intelligent)noise!

Bill WA3RA

--- n3drk <[email protected]> wrote:
>      I notified my Senators office here in
> Greensboro and spoke to his
> office staff volunteer. I explained to him for about
> 20 minutes on this BPL
> thing and what it can  potentially do but will do to
> the present spectrum. I
> further explained about Miss Kathleeen Abernathy's
> remarks of a few days ago
> and when I mentioned she was a Bush political
> appointee who is pushing this
> BPL. He immediately became very interested on what
> the Bush Administration
> had up their sleeve and was going to send this info
> immediately to Senator
> Edwards office in Washington. I do not know if this
> will do any good but
> since Senator Edward is running on the Democratic
> ticket for President just
> maybe something will come out of it.
>      I highly encourage everyone to make the phone
> calls to your
> representatives and senators, be it republican or
> democrat, and let them
> know what is going on. It is better than sitting on
> our toes and voicing all
> the woo is me on the reflectors. Do something. Make
> phone calls. Be a pain
> in the a**.
>      Good Luck
> 
> john-n3drk
> 
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