[Hallicrafters] Re: My response to the BPL article

[n. Callaghan]

I would suggest that there are two things that everyone should refrain 
from discussing
in a public forum, if you wish to maintain good feelings all around.  
They are Religion
and politics!  Needless to say I disagree with you, probably on both.
N. Callaghan

Bill Krause wrote:

> 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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