[Hallicrafters] Re: My response to the BPL article

[Bill Krause]

I don't want to get too political here but this topic is by it's very 
nature political. It should be very obvious where this administration's 
priorities are, particularly when it comes to things economic, so if you 
vote for these folks again you are only going to have yourselves to 
blame. So just how important is this issue to you?? If it is important 
enough you can do something about it. I don't think I have to remind 
anybody how close the last election was.

                                                       Bill Krause

Bill wrote:

>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
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: hallicrafters-admin at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:hallicrafters-admin at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of George KB2Z
>Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 20:41 PM
>To: hallicrafters-mailman.qth.net
>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
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