[CQ-Contest] FCC's NPRM on BPL -- President's comments

Bill Turner wrt at dslextreme.com
Thu Apr 29 11:05:04 EDT 2004


On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:20:34 +0100, K0HB  wrote:

>(Note from K0HB:  Would someone help me with the math on this?  Does he
>want us to move up 10 spots to "zero-th" place?)
> 

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For conversational English he said it correctly.  Suppose he had said
"We're in 10th place, and that's nine places too low"?  Most people's
reaction would be "Why does he only want to move up to second place?"

Mathematically incorrect, granted, but conversationally ok.

--
Bill, W6WRT
QSLs via LoTW



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