[TowerTalk] BPL: Presidential Backing

[Marlon Schafer (509-982-2181)]

?????

Guys, what's part of the magic of being a ham?  Cheap real time
communication with others all over the world right?  Broadband allows that
and more.  And for less money than you are spending to do it today.

I'm not a ham but I am a broadband provider who uses wireless as one of the
tools to do so.  I think in a way, I'm a lot like you guys.  *I* installed
another system to service a new community last night.  People were so fired
up they kept coming around asking when they could get hooked up while I was
working on it.  Very cool.

I'd think that the goal here shouldn't be how to stop BPL or any other
broadband mechanism, but how to limit the damage to yourselves.  There's too
much money and too many consumers affected to think that it's stoppable....

I'm fascinated by the Ham community thoughts on this though.

laters,
Marlon
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <k2qmf at juno.com>
To: <AB2OS at att.net>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] BPL: Presidential Backing


>
> Another good reason to NOT vote for Bush............
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:19:44 -0400 Alan Beagley <AB2OS at att.net> writes:
> > Yes, the technical standards need to be changed to allow BPL: require
> >
> > all power lines to be shielded.
> >
> > Alan AB2OS
> >
> >
> > On 04/27/04 09:06 am Eric Rosenberg put fingers to keyboard and
> > launched
> > the following message into cyberspace:
> >
> > >  From the President's speech:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > . . . There needs to be technical
> > > standards to make possible new broadband technologies, such as the
> > use
> > > of high-speed communication directly over power lines. Power lines
> > were
> > > for electricity; power lines can be used for broadband technology.
> > So
> > > the technical standards need to be changed to encourage that.