In article , "Carl R. Stevenson"
writes:

"WA8ULX" wrote in message
...
Carl got a post-restructuring Extra



After a Year of failing it.

BZZZZZZZZT ... wrong answer ... took it EXACTLY ONCE.

Yeah, me too. 1970. Bruce was nowhere to be found....

Not that I feel I owe Bruce (or anyone else, actually) an explaination,
but just to set the record straight about how full of BS Bruce is ...

Do you really think anyone is in the dark about that?

Carl does not distinguish between "real hams" and others.

ThaTs because Karl doesnt know the difference

One wonders how long Bruce has been licensed and active?
(I'm a member of QCWA ...)

In four years I can join the OOTC.....

Hmmm...I'm 49, been a ham since age 13, that means I've been licensed about 73%
of my entire life. Bruce is 305, which means he's only been licensed 12%...

Bruce says a sizable percentage of amateurs are not "real hams".

Just the New ones

I'm not a new one ... and Bruce is, as normal for him, full of
you-know-what.

Is that not self-evident?

Carl is actively trying to defeat the threat of BPL.

Thats a Joke

No, it's a very serious matter. If Bruce had a clue he'd know that.

Bruce doesn't give a damn about BPL.

THATS TRUE

That statement alone pretty well should give folks a good
idea of how much credence to give to Bruce's opinions.

My point exactly.

Licenses and tests won't mean much if we can't work anybody through the noise.

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BPL is a bad idea in so many ways. For example, I do *not* want to be around
when (not if) one of those bypass couplers decides to fail and puts 13.2 kV
into somebody's service entrance.

And after reading a "white paper" on 801.15be (I think that's the designation -
you are probably familiar with it, Carl, it uses multiple carriers in the 3-7
GHz range) it mystifoes me why anyone would think 78 MHz of bandwidth is going
to compete with what systems capable of six times that can do - without wires.

Then there's the monopoly issue, and the favoritism issue (cable companies
don't get a bye on Part 15....telcos don't get a bye on Part 15....Wi-Fi
doesn't get a bye on Part 15...) and the simple fact that electric utilities
have a hard enough time keeping the lights on and their equipment from crudding
up the ether with plain old corona noise.

Plus the fact that almost every other country that has tried BPL has given up
trying to make it work. Japan has out-and-out banned it.

73 de Jim, N2EY