"yea right" wrote in message
news

It appears the UPLC (United Powerline council) does not value people that
enjoy tube radios. This from a group of people that use glass
insulators and old wooden power poles to send hi-speed internet.


http://www.uplc.utc.org/?cbr_v=dcb&n...nten tbrowser
or
http://tinyurl.com/35ptp






"The United Power Line Council (UPLC) forcefully replied to concerns ..."

Forcefully -- not truthfully or accurately but -- FORCEFULLY!


"... as well as promote broadband competition for consumers, carriers and
ISPs - saving lives, "

BPL saves lives! What could be more important than that?


"... ignore "armchair amateurs that still use vacuum tube transmitters" "

Ignore the power companies that still burn coal to make steam!


""BPL is an exciting technology with a promising future, but it's dependent
on the FCC to develop rules that will encourage companies to deploy
systems.."

No new rules are needed, because:

"...the risk of interference from BPL is extraordinarily low, ..."


Sounds like the Cranky Old Hams have struck a nerve!!

Frank Dresser

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:50:39 -0500, Frank Dresser wrote:


Sounds like the Cranky Old Hams have struck a nerve!!

Frank Dresser


I hate to have to say this Frank but I fear that it is about time
that we set up the:


C ranky
O ld
R adio
P articipating
S ociety
E xtended


Motto: Just don't do something; lie there.

Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.

Requirement for Hams: Minimum of one RF burn.
Extra points for burn thru fingernail or thumbnail.

Dues: if you haven't already paid
them, what are you doing /here/?

Recruiting Slogan: Why, yes; actually
we /are/ as stupid as we look.



Gray Shockley
--------------------------------------------------------
Be all the B+ that you can be. -30- & 73

"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
...

[snip]


Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.


[snip]

Not only survived close encounters with the Hot Chassis, but I might have
been killed several times over by fully active 5U4s. Yet I survived, thanks
to BPL.

But how? Isn't BPL a new invention, far more recent than my clumsy repair
efforts? Don't we have a temporal anomoly here? Consider that BPL will
provide reliable broadband powerline access to everybody at a very low
price. BPL will make power lines quieter. BPL saves lives. And I'm now
sure the Rules of Time present no barrier to BPL.

I now realize that BPL exists outside the world of known physics. BPL has
found a portal into the world of magical psudeoscience commonly found on
Saturday morning cartoons and Star Trek episodes.

Frank Dresser

Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

"'Doc" wrote in message ...


Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

Smoking? No sir, I'm in BPL nirvana. BPL nirvana is the best sort of
nirvana, because wishing for something makes it so. The only thing I
haven't been able to wish away is the occasional cacophony of Cranky Old
Hams. They sound just like my alarm clock.

However, I fear it may already be morning in America.

Frank Dresser

"'Doc" wrote in message ...


Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

Smoking? No sir, I'm in BPL nirvana. BPL nirvana is the best sort of
nirvana, because wishing for something makes it so. The only thing I
haven't been able to wish away is the occasional cacophony of Cranky Old
Hams. They sound just like my alarm clock.

However, I fear it may already be morning in America.

Frank Dresser

Frank,
Can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
'Doc

"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
...

[snip]


Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.


[snip]

Not only survived close encounters with the Hot Chassis, but I might have
been killed several times over by fully active 5U4s. Yet I survived, thanks
to BPL.

But how? Isn't BPL a new invention, far more recent than my clumsy repair
efforts? Don't we have a temporal anomoly here? Consider that BPL will
provide reliable broadband powerline access to everybody at a very low
price. BPL will make power lines quieter. BPL saves lives. And I'm now
sure the Rules of Time present no barrier to BPL.

I now realize that BPL exists outside the world of known physics. BPL has
found a portal into the world of magical psudeoscience commonly found on
Saturday morning cartoons and Star Trek episodes.

Frank Dresser

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:50:39 -0500, Frank Dresser wrote:


Sounds like the Cranky Old Hams have struck a nerve!!

Frank Dresser


I hate to have to say this Frank but I fear that it is about time
that we set up the:


C ranky
O ld
R adio
P articipating
S ociety
E xtended


Motto: Just don't do something; lie there.

Requirement for SWLs: Have conclusively proved that a
5-tube AC-DC superhet really does have a hot chassis.

Requirement for Hams: Minimum of one RF burn.
Extra points for burn thru fingernail or thumbnail.

Dues: if you haven't already paid
them, what are you doing /here/?

Recruiting Slogan: Why, yes; actually
we /are/ as stupid as we look.



Gray Shockley
--------------------------------------------------------
Be all the B+ that you can be. -30- & 73