[Hallicrafters] Re:Re: My response to the BPL article

[Bill Krause]

I am inclined to agree with you and I'll make no more posts on it but it 
is a political issue and I think the genie is out of the bottle on this 
list.

                                                 Bill

n. Callaghan wrote:

> 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
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> Bill Krause wrote:
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>> 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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