 TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | said by fAcEtIOUs:Manassas Va has plenty of broadband options. Comtek's offering is pretty poor. Residential customers get at least 200-500kbps downstream for $28.95 a month. Who in their right mind wants their slow service at that price when there are so many other options. I don't think that the ARRL has much to worry about. This project will die from no profits pretty quickly. That's what I say. It's too bad that people don't realize how much hams have helped and continue to help with life saving work in America everyday and even just with regular community service (running races, parades, etc). On 9/11 when the emergency services couldn't communicate Ham Radio licensees were there to move traffic.
Ham Radio is FAR from an obsolete technology. It is a conglameration of technology, experimentation, etc.... Bouncing signals off the moon, trying to catch satellites crossing the Earth at thousands of mile per hour, Echolink, Internet-Radio-Linking Project (talk within 50 or so miles of an IRLP repeater and the audio is transmitted via the net to anywhere in the world to another repeater with IRLP or just a PC), PSK31 Keyboard-to-Keyboard operations, Hellschreiber, CW, Packet Radio (early form of the internet for "citizens", Meteor Scatter (bouncing 2 meter (local) signals off an incoming meteorites ionized trail to another location hundreds of miles away, Amateur Television (yes HAM RADIO does have TV)... So basically, don't think of the "phone" (voice) part of Ham Radio as the ONLY part. Radio is simply a means of transmission, MANY modes can be used over radio. Many advanced and more being invented every year.
-Tzale
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