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Tidal wave hits US?
FICTION?
The United States today suffered the effects of a 9.0 earthquake and resulting tidal wave. The disastrous events of this morning knocked out many power lines and all cellular and landline communications. Amateur radio operators volunteered to be of service providing life-saving communications, but were unable to be of assistance due to the pervasive Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) radiation that was emanating from nearly every remaining power line. "We've pretty much been limited to Tech frequencies since BPL was rushed into service," said K. Hurts, press agent for Hams on VHF. "We can talk across the street on HF, but it takes all the power that we have, and since many of us are limited by antenna restrictions, we finally gave up. We can't use HF." "Where are the hams?" asked President G. W. Bush. "I thought this group of highly-trained volunteer operators would be there to help us when our infrastructure fails." Where indeed. Why do they expect hams to be able to communicate when their multi-million dollar systems fail? Strange bedfellows Connie Hunt, president of the homeowners association in Douche, MN, was unable to contact her dear sister in the affected area. Remembering that one of her neighbors was a ham operator, she contacted Mr. Smart. After asking him if he could contact her sister, Smart said that no, he couldn't, because his CCR limited his antenna to 13 feet AGL. "Isn't that enough to get 1200 miles? I can call on my cell phone farther than that, and it only has a 4" antenna!" "Go ahead," said Smart. "Well, I can't, because the cell phone isn't working now," said Hunt. "I wish I had a better antenna so I could help you, you stupid Hunt." During the rush to approve BPL operations, one news op-ed piece asked "Why should progress in high-speed internet be held back by some hobby that no one needs? We need high-speed connectivity. Ham operators can find another equally-interesting hobby, maybe stamp or coin collecting." When asked for comment about her earlier statement regarding ham operators, the reporter replied (you finish the story) When the president was asked why the FCC allowed the HF spectrum to be polluted with BPL, he said (you finish the story) When the homeowners organization said that hams should be able to use their small (and still unsightly) antennas to work for the general public during a disaster, we told them (you finish the story) |
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The FCC in my opinion is now a proxy
for corporations and big business. Amateurs are in for a big struggle if frequencies and traditional enforcement provisions are to be upheld. Everything from income taxes, social security, judicial appointments is up for sale. That includes frequencies and protection from BPL. Of course we voted Republican and really had little choice considering the condition which the other party has come into. Stand by for a ram and listen to the intereference, and watch businesses grab for frequencies. I doubt if we hams will get much listening to from this administration.73s |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:42:31 -0700, "Spike"
wrote: The FCC in my opinion is now a proxy for corporations and big business. As are the Congress Critters elected by the American public. Who donates money to the Congress critters Political Action Committees and such in significant chunks? Right, special interest groups and businesses. Tony |
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