[Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House

[Carey Fisher - NCS]

Lost Causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Carey Fisher, K8VZ
Chief Technical Officer
New Communications Solutions, LLC
website: www.ncsradio.com

   > -----Original Message-----
   > From: kenwood-admin at mailman.qth.net
   > [mailto:kenwood-admin at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Daniel Seagraves
   > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:04 PM
   > Cc: Kenwood List Server
   > Subject: Re: [Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House
   >
   >
   > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, S. Markowski Jr. wrote:
   >
   > > "OVER?  Did he say OVER? Nothing's over until we decide it
   > is.........
   >
   > Well, if the FCC already authorized it, the legislative fight is over.
   >
   > I am not saying we should just give up on HF - Quite the
   > contrary. We just
   > need to start working on ways to use the affected spectrum despite the
   > interference. The interference will be man-made, which means
   > it cannot be
   > truly random, and if it can be identified as a pattern it can
   > be filtered
   > out. We're supposed to have as reputation for being innovators and
   > technicians - Now we have to depend on this to continue as we do.
   > Originally everyone said shortwave was useless. Hams proved
   > this wrong and
   > paved the way for modern communications. Now everyoen says shortwave is
   > useless because the interference from BPL will wipe it out.
   > BPL is coming
   > and there's nothing we can realistically do about it. The dollars just
   > don't add up. The only way to feasably continue is to look for ways to
   > overcome the interference and make the "impossible" possible
   > again. Even
   > if we stop it in the USA, I'm sure some other country is going
   > to pick it
   > up, and given the global propagation of HF signals it only takes one to
   > wipe out a band for an entire hemisphere.
   >
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