[GreenKeys] Re: Methinks I am wasting my time... or am I ?

[Chris Elmquist]

Somehow my comments were edited in a such way as to not represent what
I had intented to say.

Motorola lobbied congress for these changes to be made.  The original
poster asked who did the lobbying, I responded that that question was easy
to answer because Motorola did a significant amount of that lobbying...
for benefit of both their public service radio business and their
digital TV converter business.  I watched the proceedings on CSPAN to
my amazement.

The crime that I try to educate people about is what the cable TV
companies and the electronics retailers are doing to take advantage
of people who do not understand what this change means.  Very few
non-technically oriented people understand the difference between digital
broadcast and HDTV.  The guilty parties have done very little to make
that difference known and clearly understood.  In fact, they do quite
the opposite to take advantage of people to convince them to buy things
they really do not need.  So, that is the "crime" I was refering to.

Chris

On Friday (01/02/2009 at 05:42PM -0600), Blake Bowers wrote:
> Oh thats funny.
>
> Its Motorola durn it.  They did it.  Yeah right.
>
> Its the politicians who found another way to
> get money for the coffers, not Motorola.
>
> Public safety only got a relative sliver of the
> spectrum, with P25 only being able to be used on
> half of that.
>
> Motorola has most?  You forget the major
> statewide systems going in as we type, which make use of parts of that 
> spectrum, in NY and PA, that
> went to MA/Com  While Mother may have the majority, the pie is sliced.
>
> Politicians is what did this, in their entire grab at spectrum sales.
>
> If you consider it your duty as a ham radio operator to
> point out this "crime" then it should be your duty to get your
> facts straight.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Elmquist" <chrise at pobox.com>
>>
>> oh-- that's easy-- Motorola.
>>
>> They have won most of the digital public service radio system (APCO25)
>> So many, many more have already been scammed.  As an amateur radio
>> operator, I feel its one of my duties to help educate people about
>> this crime.
>>
>
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