He wanted to be taken seriously? I thought it was a joke (silencing people
in the name of free speech).

Why would that be a joke? Silencing those who threaten free speech?
Do people really believe that they just pulled sw frequencies out of a
hat? Oh well, let's just see how the power companies will want to
stand behind & push BPL if there is another 9/11 or WHEN other natural
or man-made disasters strike & emergency communications becomes the
real joke.

Mark wrote:
Oh well, let's just see how the power companies will want to
stand behind & push BPL if there is another 9/11 or WHEN other natural
or man-made disasters strike & emergency communications becomes the
real joke.

You underestimate the stupidity of mankind.
I remember a SHARES emergency communications test of
government HF communications a few years ago.
We couldn't raise one "hub" station in California,
needed to pass some traffic. So I called him.

"How come ya'll aren't on the air?"
"What the h**l do we need that for?
We've all got cell phones...."

On 4 Jul 2004 19:12:06 -0700, (Mark) wrote:

He wanted to be taken seriously? I thought it was a joke (silencing people
in the name of free speech).

Why would that be a joke? Silencing those who threaten free speech?
Do people really believe that they just pulled sw frequencies out of a
hat? Oh well, let's just see how the power companies will want to
stand behind & push BPL if there is another 9/11 or WHEN other natural

You do realize they and the TSA are touting BPL in the name of
security don't you? That was in the papers a few weeks back.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


or man-made disasters strike & emergency communications becomes the
real joke.