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February 25th 04, 03:03 AM

PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ...
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(Brian Kelly) writes:

Point is that the last-mile problem isn't a real problem at all. Run the fiber
down the street on the poles, put a little box every so many poles, use a
little encoding, no problem.

Certainly. But running fiber optics lines is a very expensive
proposition, much more expensive per unit length than any of the other
utility lines. If/when real wideband access comes true in this country
it's most likely gonna at least get started via the cable. That
probability is mixed into Comcast's move to bring the Mouse to Philly.

And if "they" can't find a "solution" then kiss the 2.4 Ghz (got it
right that time) ham band 'bye-'bye. Get comfortable with the concept

More bandwidth than all of HF.

Hare and I touched on that when he was here, it's a classic case of
use it or lose it and it's not being used. I asked him how much ham
activity he knew about on 2.4 Ghz and he answered "What activity?".

btw, I came across some info on the Manassas thing. $20 month for BPL - for the
first three months! Then it jumps to $50/month. On a good day it might get up
to half of DSL speed. Maybe.

Good. I hope they lose their skivvies on that deal.

In this country standard DSL runs 0.5-1.0 Mb/s and can be found for
$30/month. Cable here runs at around 3Mb/s for $45/month. The JAs have
a flavor of DSL which runs at 26 Mb/sec in heavily-populated areas for
$50/month with the HLs close behind. Manassas BPL for $50/month for
only half of 0.5-1.0 Mb/s you say? They gotta be kidding . . ! One
more dot bomb in the making . .

At this point I'm not in the least bit convinced that Gore would have
been one bit worse that the Shrub.

Izzat the sun coming up over Sugartown Road?

Huh? How did Sugartown Rd. get into it??

Have you checked the size of the national debt recently?

Yep. But that's not the big problem - the real 800 pound gorilla is how fast
the deficit is making it grow. A few years back we had a surplus....

Yeah, it's the rate which is really scary.

And now we're supposed to go back to the Moon, and send people to Mars. Yet the
odds on a Shuttle failure are worse than 100 to 1...

I don't see shuttle safety being part of the politics of the upcoming
campaign. As has been the case in all major explorations since Leif
Ericsson's days and millenia before the folk who ride the things know
they didn't buy a seat in a 737 and some are not gonna come back.

Tell ya what, let's fund Shrub's moon-mars-madness the same way things like
education, mass transit and health care get funded.

How 'bout we just bag the whole stupid Mars camping trip thing and
first build a new version of the Shuttle then put Wideband on the
front burner as a matter of national policy? Which is what the JAs and
HLs did and explains why this country is years behind them in this
field.

We could have walkathons
and bake sales. Corporate sponsorship in return for advertising space, just
like they do in NASCAR and at Indy. Let groups and individuals send in money to
buy parts and supplies - a gallon of rocket fuel, coupla resistors for the
computer, etc.

NASA can have anything in the Southgate Radio stockroom for a very nominal
price.

Let's not get carried away here Miccolis . .

73 de Jim, N2EY

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