Great minds think alike -- I made each of those points in my response.
But in any case, someone mentioned to me in a direct e-mail that on this
morning's ME, they read an e-mail received from a ham who took them to task for
swallowing the BPL industry line. So the time for hollerin' is past, and we
can stand down.
73, Pete
At 11:01 AM 8/18/2005, Tom Rauch wrote:
>Telling them they did a "bad job" is meaningless. Hams are
>also significantly less important to the rest of the world
>when compared to granny accessing pictures. If the general
>public had a choice in the matter, ham radio would go rather
>than broadband internet.
>
>Pointing out that BPL pollutes frequencies used by
>International Broadcast, aircraft, and emergency services,
>that it is expensive compared to wireless broadband would
>have more impact.
>
>73, Tom W8JI
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
>To: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv@hotmail.com>;
><RFI@contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [RFI] BPL Propaganda, ARRL Rebuttal on NPR's
>Morning Edition
>
>
>> I encourage everyone to augment Ed's rebuttal - they
>clearly cropped his comments so sharply that they lost much
>of the impact they should have had. If you go to NPR.ORG
>there is a very accessible e-mail form. Be polite, avoid
>jargon, but let's let them hear what a bad job they did.
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>>
>> At 05:05 PM 8/17/2005, Donald Chester wrote:
>>
>> >Click on the link, or copy and paste into your browser,
>to listen to the
>> >story via streaming audio. They finish the story with a
>short rebuttal by
>> >ARRL's Ed Hare.
>> >
>>
>>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=480144
>6
>> >
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