"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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"AK" wrote in message
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That's one of those nonsense comments that sounds good, but doesn't
work.
Once "the marketplace" gets tested, amateur radio and most of the other
users of HF and MF radio reception will be out of business - never to
bounce
back once destroyed.

NEVER to bounce back? Shortwave radio is that fragile? Must not be much
keeping it going right now.



Meanwhile, BPL will be "workable" for those areas that
never had good cable access and where people were too cheap to use
satellite
or telephone alternatives. BPL isn't "unworkable" - it's the
"unreasonable"
sacrifices that must be made to allow nationwide radio spectrum
disruption
for some trivial gain to a few people and a few big businesses.


I saw an analysis somewhere on the web (didn't mark the URL) that indicates
BPL will not be cheaper the dial-up or various other types of service unless
it is subsidized. Perhaps they plan to increase the electric rates to make
it up?

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE