Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Fw: BPL Video (and audio!!!)

From: "Kenneth Van Patten" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:31:15 -0500

Subject: BPL Video (and audio!!!)

I received this note from WØNYA, thought I would forward
it on to you:
Wayne

      Well, it's official.  I found the ARRL test webpage with video and audio from the BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) tests.

      All I can say is....ham radio is over!  We  can pack up our rigs and kiss ham radio goodbye.  This is it, boys...we are off the air for good in the near future.  I have never heard anything so obnoxious in all my life.  The ham bands will be totally unusable!  The noise level in these tests totally wipes EVERYTHING out across the entire ham bands. The mobile rig was videoed traveling down the highway and also parked and the interference totally wiped everything out.

      The FCC has APPROVED THIS NOW, REGARDLESS OF THESE TESTS!!!!!!!  BIG MONEY RULES!!!  We can kiss our hobby goodbye as well as any other SW listening or emergency communications between 1 and 30 MHZ.  

      If you don't believe me, or you think I'm being too dramatic, just go to this website and download the tests.  See for yourself.  Once every home is wired for this HF will be totally useless.  Also, our homes will be tapped and our privacy will be gone.  

      Here's the website:

      http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2004/03/20.html

      This is a Coast to Coast AM (radio talk show) page, and the host Art Bell is an avid ham.  He has been very vocal about the BPL situation.  At the bottom of this page just download the 
      "BPL Video Interference Clip".  This is an ARRL clip.  YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE FCC IS ALLOWING!!!!!  WE MUST WRITE TO THEM NOW, or to whoever we need to contact to put a stop to this.  Other countries in Europe who have checked BPL out have banned it for these interference reasons.  Over here in America it has been approved.  And not just ham radio will be affected.  Can you imagine living in America now, with our war on terror, without the emergency communications ham radio, FEMA, and many law enforcement agencies use????  Well, it's here, boys....this is Big Brother all the way!

      Have a nice day...
      Bob, WØNYA 

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