14 Sep
2001
14 Sep
'01
1:26 a.m.
At 04:17 PM 9/13/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
Amateur radio was the first casualty after Pearl Harbor. Some criticize the action now, of course.
~Aimee
Honig:
Nice analogy. However, it wasn't like there were 1e7 full-band HAM rigs in lots of living rooms, back then.
Agree. Just came to mind.
The internet provides infinate bandwidth, vs. HAMs' little slices of spectrum, or cable's feeble Gigahertz pipe.
Like the sky. Hm. "Open Skies." Eisenhower. That's a scary line of thought... How would "backdoor" cooperation be reconciled with heightened concerns over privatized economic espionage? (Is there a conflict? Is that not a new element, at least in terms of international concern?) ~Aimee