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

Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:45:53 -0400

Good thinking Doc...

I plan to contact my representatives and make a lot of noise about this one. The 
honchos at ARRL can't be expected to carry the entire load of ;legislative 
awareness this time.

it will do NO good to do pre-empt restrictive covenants, and it will
 do NO good to protect our SPECTRUM if the HF bands are covered up by this 
revolting trash!

We HAVE To do something NOW!

What about organizing a day for thousands of hams to visit 
Washington or Tallahassee? I would be up for it!

On 9 Aug 2003 at 9:12, Colburn wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>
> > 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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