[Hallicrafters] My response to the BPL article

[Bill]

I don't know if has already been mentioned here, but Bush said at a fund
raiser
yesterday or Friday, one of his re-election campaign promises is to
deliver
broadband to all homes in the USA.  The same article mentioned the FCC
and BPL.
Apparently Bush & Co. know about the FCC and BPL.  I believe Powell and
others
at the FCC may have been pressured to deliver BPL come hell or high
water.

I now think the FCC in its infinitely stupid wisdom approved BPL
deployment.
The president has BPL as part of his agenda.  I think we are in a lot of
trouble here (maybe).
Since we all know all politicians are liars, we can be sure if Bush is
re-elected, BPL will
die a quick death.

Bill G.
K2WH


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Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 20:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] My response to the BPL article


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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