| reply to digitalfreak
Let me explain an issue that happened in my town a while back. There was a water district outside of the city doing some digging and they hit the main fiber trunk coming out of the city. Guess what happened? No outside phone, no cell phone, no internet. Unless you had satellite phone/internet you were screwed. There was no way for emergency services to get contacts out of the city. Guess who came to the rescue with an existing backup plan for something like this? The local Amateur Radio Emergency Services people. By using voice communications and digital communications; Yes, we have digital communications, amazing isn't it? We were able to at least have a communications backbone for those who needed it most. The FCC recognizes Amateur Radio as an important part of communications, heck, even the President has recognized Amateur Radio as an important part of communications. Let us continue to help others, but first, we need others to help us.
Supporting a failing broadband alternative is wrong. All these companies are trying to do is keep the revenue flow going but they are hanging by a thread. Even in a rural area, fiber and cable can be just as easily rolled out as BPL. Wireless broadband would be a more viable solution over BPL.
-KI6BBL aka CyberTrip |
