Seems like we are damned if we do and damned if we don't.  If you don't
comment they steam roll you, and if you do comment you are a weird little
radio freak playing with your elaborate little toys.  Seems to me that ham
radio has failed to take the public service that we are supposed to exist
for seriously enough, and what the public primarily sees is the contests
and the DXing, which will be our demise.  Still, you would think the FCC
would know better, and would have at least a little concern about what the
loss of HF communications would do to emergency communications in a
regional disaster.  The problem is that if the people out side the disaster
cannot hear because they are inundated with BPL signals, then they cannot
very well help those in the stricken area.  Oops, I forgot, the money god
is supreme.  It rules everything.  It is the state religion.  How clumsy of me.

But seriously, I'm afraid we have lost this round, and maybe the ultimate
battle.  And, unfortunately, we do have a problem with shrinking
numbers.  I am not sure why, but it seems like amateur radio has been
fading for the last few decades.  If the FCC has become antagonistic
towards amateur radio, and this seems to be true, I think it's going to get
a lot worse.

73, de Lou K2LKK




Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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