[TenTec] The Tea Party

[Larry Greenberg N5BEA]

There are a couple points that must be considered. The fun is over.  Time to dump the tea in the bay.  1. Need.. Or in other words,, Why? Dial up is getting faster, cheaper and almost universally available.  DSL has become widely available and still inexpensive.  I get mine from the phone co. for $26.95 from the phone co. which compares to MSN or AOL Dial ups.TV cable broadband is steadily growing. Satellite broadband usage is increasing and is just slightly more than DSL.  I look for  some technical issues along with the $250-$400 equipment to subside with continued usage.  Now, something very practical is emerging  in rural America.  The use of UHF links for broadband is now available in our area.  So why not fully develop existing technology? Why waste time looking for new technologies when the need does not exist?2. Politics.. Electric companies are billion dollar corporations with enough politiical clout be be guaranteed a profit ... no matter what.  The incorpoation of 
 a new service is a gold mine which can be worked with utility users paying for the development.  I wonder how many of or governmental represenatives know what's happening..  The FCC is caught in the middle.  Their funding is very tight.  Anyway this 20kV Broadband is a terrible idea and absoullty not necessary!  Larry GreenbergN5BEA--- On Wed 03/03, Adam Farson < farson at shaw.ca > wrote:From: Adam Farson [mailto: farson at shaw.ca]To: tentec at contesting.comDate: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:16:56 -0800Subject: RE: [TenTec] The Tea PartyHi Don,The tea will hit the water when a fully-laden airliner crashes into amountainside because BPL screwed up its ADF, or another airliner is lostover mid-Atlantic because ARINC could not hear its Mayday on HF comm. overthe BPL roar, or - worst of all - when a terrorist attack goes down on USsoil because BPL garbage radiated by PEPCO caused Ft. Meade to miss acritical piece of intel transmitted via HF e-mail.It will be interesting to watch the admin
 istration try to two-step any oneof these scenarios away - especially at election time.Cheers for now, 73,Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec_______________________________________________TenTec mailing listTenTec at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec

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