[Hallicrafters] My response to the BPL article

[George KB2Z]

Greg,
You are trying to close the barn door after the cow ran away.
If you go to the ARRL website and look up BPL, you might be surprised. You 
will not only find out what BPL is, you will find out what HF frequencies 
will be affected. What the ARRL is attempting. BPL will have an adverse 
effect on the ARRL advertising revenue. It won't be good for the radio 
sellers, or users. Since Wayne Green dropped out, the League is the only 
game in most towns. BPL is big business. When its enacted TV, phone, and 
other services will likely follow. After all they can't let the phone, 
cable, and satellite companies get the whole pie.
As far as the Government goes, my feeling is they don't really need the 
affected HF bands. We are secondary users on said frequencies. In the 21st. 
century the Army can get by without them. Makes me wonder why I was worried 
about them being auctioned off a few years back.
Looks like CW might have a renascence after all.
I have not been a member of the ARRL since the mid 90's, but that's a 
different argument.
73, George



At 08:12 AM 3/28/04 -0500, you wrote:

>OK, fair enough. Then the cell phone is not dependable in a disaster and has
>possibly given the general public a false sense of security and Amateur Radio
>emergency communications is still our best argument against BPL. Can anyone
>show the ARRL has actually put up a good fight against this one or are we 
>just
>believing or hoping they have? Do they still have the muscle to effectively
>represent the interests of Amateur Radio when issues like this threaten us?
>
>- Greg
>
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