said by GoodBuddy:

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So I got 2 meters and 220 MHz confused. So UPS never developed the system. Big deal, it still proved to hams that they did not run the FCC.

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said by GoodBuddy:

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As for encouraging vandalism, a Federal crime, etc. etc. I somehow doubt the FBI is going to come out and investigate a coax pinning, especially if you brought it upon yourself by deliberately interfering with other people's broadband communication. I don't have to encourage such a thing, I'm just telling you that you don't want a bunch of pissed-off teenagers upset with you because you're deliberately ruining their online experience, especially if they figure out you're doing it just to be spiteful because you hate giving up any frequencies.

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said by GoodBuddy:

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You hams have a whole lot of bandwidth to play with already, why do you so begrudge others use of the bandwidth, especially for unlicensed applications? That bandwidth should belong to everyone, not just those willing to join your cult and play by the rules that the old farts at the ARRL insist on hanging onto. Yes, code is finally going away but only because the so many of the old brass pounders who lobbied the FCC to keep the code requirement have finally gone on to that great ham shack in the sky. The code requirement should have been dropped forty years ago.

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said by GoodBuddy:

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And for the record: Yes, I am one of those who refused to study an antiquated form of communication just so I could hook up with a group of radio snobs. And no, I never either had my cable damaged, nor did I ever damage anyone else's equipment. But I know it happened, and it usually happened to people who thought they were the king of the airwaves and that nobody could touch them. And believe me when I say that hams weren't totally above doing a little vandalism toward other hams from time to time.

Now I fully agree with the comments about the CB'ers who pump out illegal power with harmonics all over the spectrum. But let's not play Pollyanna here and act like there's never been a ham who was totally unconcerned about how he was messing up his neighbor's TV reception. You probably wouldn't know about that because the neighbors probably wouldn't write the ARRL and tell them. But let's not pretend that ham radio doesn't have its share of bad apples (some of whom aren't even former CB'ers).

Perhaps my message was a bit more provocative than it needed to be but I think it is high time that hams realized that the radio spectrum is a public resource. For too long hams have treated it like a "members only" beach, when in fact the beach belongs to all the taxpayers. In my opinion, power line broadband will benefit far more people than ham radio ever did or ever will. And what I was really reacting to was the implication that hams would deliberately go out of their way to disrupt the broadband connections of their neighbors just to prove a point, when they could just as easily move their operations to another part of the spectrum. So whatever names I have been called really should be attached to those hams who intend to squat on frequencies to deliberately disrupt broadband, just because they think they can. At least until the neighborhood teenagers figure out what's going on, that is.

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