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The Fed's Anti-Ham Trojan Horse
Something occurred to me recently that I thought I'd share... It has to do
with the Feds, the ARRL, BPL and ARESCOM / WL2K. Note how the ARRL was getting some traction early on with the BPL deal by taking a rational, scientific approach to the problem. Remember the video of Ed Hare driving around listening to BPL hash? Being above commercial concerns, amateur radio operators were in a good position to comment on technical matters with no taint of commercial motivation or greed. We spoke from an old, well-respected reputation. Then things seemed to go wrong in a murky sort of way. - In the end, Ham Radio was dissed by the FCC as not being relevant enough to protect from BPL interference. To me, this says that somebody within the federal government who wanted to boost BPL decided to pull a few strings and ham radio obligingly tripped over those strings. I was thinking about how the federal government sometimes handles problems and wondered if the Department of Homeland Security grants may have been a successful "trojan horse" weapon that we are currently suffering the effects of. It strikes me funny that all within a year or so, the feds (DHS) would throw millions of dollars at amateur radio through the DHS grants, and then the same feds (FCC) turn around and say our work is so irrelevant that it does not merit protection from inteference. To me, they are all "the feds" because of the heirarchy of command there. With its deep pockets, it seems to me that the DHS grants handed out were a very cheap and effective way for the federal government to: A: Eliminate the Amateur community's "detatched, objective" status by throwing money at the problem, depending on us to discredit ourselves by the way we react to the existence of that sudden influx of money. B: Throw the ARRL and the amateur community into disarray, making the organized, concerted effort against BPL that was building much less likely to jell into something effective. C: Produce a dependency upon the federal government that did not exist before, bringing new, long-lived federal control over our activities that previously did not exist. We were starting to be a problem, so the federal government threw money at us. Soon we were tainted with greed, discredited, dependent, disorganized and fighting each other instead of BPL. Cheap at any price, especially when you're spending somebody else's money to start with, eh? Charles Brabham, N5PVL |
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