Jim Hampton wrote:
What *might* prove interesting is some emergency where communications can't
get through due to interference. Then the high power lawyers step up to the
plate and see if they can do to the power company involved what was done to
big tobacco. Of course, by then the damage will be done. Let someone win a
billion dollars and then see what happens with BPL. I'm not pushing amateur
radio here; I simply see radio communications (fire, police, aircraft, etc.)
as more reliable than cell phones. It is also difficult to call 20 police
cars individually when you need a rapid response to a large problem as
opposed to just pressing the button on a radio transmitter. I am very
rapidly learning to dislike the present administration a *lot*. An
interesting aside with the power companies; Wall Street doesn't like them
generating power. They simply want to buy power and resell it at a profit.
Where is this power supposed to come from?

The same place that we will get our food from after the Midwest is top
soilless, fertilized out and saline, and all the other farmland is
turned into housing developments! "someone else will do it"

With all manufacturing jobs
going offshore and no one interested in actually building (or generating)
anything ...

Uh-huh. And what happens when for some reason or another we NEED to
have a manufacturing capability again? We're doing what Great Britain
did before WW2.

- Mike KB3EIA -