[FLham] Re: QRN 2 - BPL Threat to HF Amateur Radio

[Colburn]

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 02:27, Gerry Santo wrote:
> I just downloaded and played this video clip.  Much, much worse than you can imagine.  
> I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this could end HF for many hams.
> kiyoinc <kiyoinc@attglobal.net> wrote:From 
> http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1
> de ah6gi/4 

This requires more than pressuring the handful of bureaucrats &
political appointees who will make this decision at the FCC.

We need to let the politicians who appoint them and the media who
notifies the public about threats to their well-being from government
errors know as well.  This could interfere with emergency communications
via HF.

We need to make "the big noise" this time else the big noise BPL makes
will silence HF in much of the country.

This means contacting our Congressman and asking our State level
representatives to use their contacts to rattle some cages as well.

This also means talking to some lawyers -- jamming is illegal via
federal regs and international treaties -- by the sound of this those
would appear to be violated by BPL.

This would ease FCC enforcement duties -- destruction of HF for Amateur
Radio would remove a whole segment of their responsibilities!

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