[Antennas] BPL

Fri Oct 15 23:49:31 EDT 2004

I'm putting up a sign that says
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Dave W9LYA
What wrought doG hath?
On 2004年10月15日 21:35:38 -0500 "Jay Eimer" <ad5pe at familynet.net>
writes:
> The Democrat position would "why not 'tax' the city folk to bring
> broadband to the poor folk in the country who can't get broadband 
> either
> way".
>> The Republican argument would be "let the marketplace decide which
> service can best serve each market".
>> And the Republican counter to the Dems would be "the 'poor' city 
> folk
> are the minorities and welfare recipients that are subsidizing the 
> rich
> folk living in the country, who don't need the subsidy".
>> Finally, the Dems counter would be to rig it so more government
> employees would be required to administer some program so the 
> 'rich'
> city folk would end up paying for BPL for everyone.
>> Unfortunately, none of this takes ANY of the engineering into 
> account.
> And Poly Sci/Government and Law degrees don't help.
>> Jay
> AD5PE
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Patrick A.
> Thompson Sr.
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 18:15
> To: Alan C. Zack
> Cc: Tower Talk; Antennas; CQ-Contest; DX List
> Subject: Re: [Antennas] BPL
>>> This means (trying to be non-partisan when I'm anything but) that we 
>> must choose who we vote for on some other basis than BPL since 
> neither 
> party offers relief.
>> I intend to donate more to the ARRL Spectrum Defense fund and hope 
> amateur radio can survive the electromagetic ignorance of both 
> parties.
>> There are other issues in this election. Make your best judgements. 
>> Then choose to fight for the survival of amateur radio with whatever 
>> party prevails.
>> Pat
> wa4tuk
>> mailto:Antennas at mailman.qth.net
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