On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:25:09 +0000 (UTC), in rec.radio.amateur.dx,
wrote:
In rec.radio.amateur.dx Dave Shrader
wrote:
There will be so much capital investment by companies in BPL that the
courts won't dare to overturn the decision!!!! The FCC will cave to
the $$$ interest, if they have not already done so.

They have. Mikey Powell was just in Raleigh (where I am)
talking to the public, and the paper quoted him on the BPL
issue among others. I don't have the exact quote but he
basically said, "We'll try not to harm hobbyists, but BPL
has too much potential (*) to let it be stopped."

(*) "Potential" = "people are going to get RICH on this."

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"We'll *try* not harm hobbyists.." Yeah, riiiight. To me what he
actually said was "Talk to the hand 'cause the face don't understand."
I think Powell would love nothing more than to see amateur radio die.

Arnold wrote:


"We'll *try* not harm hobbyists.." Yeah, riiiight. To me what he
actually said was "Talk to the hand 'cause the face don't understand."
I think Powell would love nothing more than to see amateur radio die.


After BPL gets up and going, watch Powell and some of the other high up
FCC lawyers take jobs at outlandish salaries with some of the BPL
companies as their payoff to them for pushing BPL through.

"We'll *try* not harm hobbyists.." Yeah, riiiight. To me what he
actually said was "Talk to the hand 'cause the face don't understand."
I think Powell would love nothing more than to see amateur radio die.



I doubt that he even know it still exists. He probably thinks that ham
radio operators
are still using homebrew 75 watt crystal controlled CW rigs and modified
AM radios,
or boatanchors. And are boy scouts, etc....