 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to jniamehr
Re: so? said by jniamehr:
Look, theres a point in time we have to stop caring about HAMs and worry about the future of this country, ham radio... BPL is at least 20 times more important than ham shit radio... im so sick of hearing people bitch about powell, I think hes doing an excellent job, demanding that VOIP stay unregulated, and untaxed, this guy is smart, and I like him, he knows a little something that I like to call PRIORITY!!!!!
What pleases me as a Ham Radio operator is your pin headed
comment is in the minority now. I wasn't that way at first.
We education people here as to what the realities are with
this absolutly bogus technology. The Amateur Radio service
as been around for almost a hundred years. we have more collective knowledge of RF then anyone else.
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 ryanl88Premium
join:2003-01-03
Fairfield, CA | quote:
The Amateur Radio service
as been around for almost a hundred years.
So has the use of fossil fuels to run the engines in the cars we drive. So why bother switching to alternative fuels--let's just keep polluting the earth and keep our economy stable for just a little bit longer? This is the kind of thinking that's preventing our country from advancing to the future.
I'm not saying "screw HAM and Amateur Radio"--but I'm saying that we need to find a way to make this work to keep us from getting stuck in the mud.
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 japPremium
join:2003-08-10
038xx | said by ryanl88:
I'm saying that we need to find a way to make this work to keep us from getting stuck in the mud.
Many people, including myself, feel BPL is part of the "mud" problem: too many overlapping providers that are leveraging an existing infrastructure that was NOT designed for bi-directional data. All the major providers are such in this country: TV, telephone and now high voltage electricity networks. The only truly good, stabile, cheap resi services are those via the few munis that built a dedicated data network & sell access to for-profit ISPs. The countries that have excellent resi service (eg: korea, sweden) did the same thing years ago - and they are the only ones that reach less pop'd areas.
RF interference aside, BPL is poised to be another layer of suburban cash grab: the political jibberish about it providing cheap rural coverage is just that: jibberish. Wireless is *so* much cheaper to deploy to most rural environments. The BPL proponents are those with a profit potential because they own the already-build infra, not because it shows a technical, cost-efficacy, or rural penetration potential. |
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