[TenTec] BPL: The End Is Near

[Tommy]

One should NOT criticize what goes on in our government. It is, after all,
WE who put those people there MAINLY BY SITTING OUR COLLECTIVE BUTTS DURING
ELECTION DAY.

Tom - W4BQF


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Maier" <George at MaierGroup.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] BPL: The End Is Near


> Ron:
> To all of us in the amateur community, this Part 15 BPL & RFID stuff is
> getting scarier by the day. Having said that, it's just as scary knowing
for
> sure that PA's dept of motor vehicles is owned outright by political
> interests. I say this, by the way, as a resident of Taxachusetts, a state
> with only one political party, where graft, corruption, and political
> feather-bedding are all we've ever known. Sure makes you wonder!
> Keep on writing to congressional leaders though.  They have to come to
grips
> with the fact that "we the people" still have a voice, and a vote.
> Cheers,
> George - K1GXT
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Ron Notarius WN3VAW
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:24 PM
> To: Ten Tec Reflector
> Subject: [TenTec] BPL: The End Is Near
>
> In case you haven't already heard, the FCC approved yesterday the 2000
SAVI
> petition to permit RF ID Tags (RFID) in the 433.5 MHz band.
>
> One of the reasons mentioned for this approval (see
> http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/04/15/103/?nc=1 for the full story)
by
> the FCC was that the use of RFID would "improve homeland security."  I put
> this piece of doubletalk in the same neighborhood as "it's for the
children.
> Now you're not against anything that's for the children, are you?"
>
> Even more chilling, though, is that the FCC's Office of Engineering &
> Technology is proposing changes to Part 15, at first (of course) only in
> commercial & industrial areas... is that the nose of the camel peaking
into
> the tent?... to facillitate RFID useage.  But, and I quote from the above
> mentioned web page:
>
> 'current Part 15 requirements aimed at preventing interference to licensed
> services "may unnecessarily constrain the operational range of RFID
systems
> as well as the speed and quantity of data that can be transmitted."  '
>
> Methinks this poses bad for us.  My gut hunch is that after "due
diligence"
> and a "fair" review of our comments, the FCC will pass new BPL rules that
> will harm the Amateur Service -- and we can kiss off the Part 15
objections
> we think we're going to have, because that change will come next.  For the
> benefit of Homeland Security, of course.
>
> Feh.  First time in a long time I've actually been happy that the State of
> Pennsyvania conveniently changed my registration from Republican to
Democrat
> when I last renewed my driver's license...
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> "What's the point in being crazy if you can't have a little fun with it?"
> -- Russell Crowe portraying John Nash, "A Beautiful Mind"
>
>
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