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Friday, July 4, 2003
Powerline Communication Systems Likely To Cause Severe Interference to HF Radio Users. The FCC wishes to allow electric power companies to transmit high speed internet data services over the existing electrical power lines. Effectively, the systems operate by sending data as modulated radio signals between about 2 and 80 Mhz. The electrical power system was not designed as a radio signal transmission system. This "kludge" is equivalent to using the power lines as an extremely lossy transmission line. The result is constant interference to HF radio users. Incredibly, the FCC may have already made up its mind to go ahead with such systems. The FCC currently has a request for comments pending on this issue - deadline to file is JULY 7, 2003. I strongly encourage you to file comments in this proceeding. To learn more, visit the ARRL's web page special section on power line communication systems. This technology is a kludge that will interfere greatly with radio transmissions. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 8:14:22 AM 
>Microsoft said to be laying off US workers and moving their jobs to India. Also notes that AMD did that last week. Another story quotes a Microsoft vice president urging Microsoft managers to move everything they can to India. That story says Microsoft will be closing several of its U.S.-based product support offices entirely and moving the jobs to India. It was only one decade ago when U.S. firms actively boycotted South Africa for its practice of apartheid. India, meanwhile, engages in the same type of discrimination - but gets away with it in spite of its extensive caste system, where one out of six Indians are "untouchable". India says its not really racism, even though it has similar and often much worse effects. India has refused to participate in international forums regarding the massive discrimination that goes on inside India. The topic of India "caste-ism" is likely to explode in to the public mind share, just as the loss of U.S. jobs to India has finally begun to receive mainstream coverage in the U.S. media as the number of U.S. workers affected is now expected to climb to several million within a few years. Out of work U.S. workers are likely to raise this issue - and ask why is okay for Microsoft and other U.S. corporations to do business with one of the most "racist" societies on earth while having supported a boycott of South Africa a decade earlier? Where is the difference? Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports (paid registration required) that AT&T Wireless may move 2,000 software development jobs overseas. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 8:12:54 AM
>Partial solution found for SOHO antenna problem. Engineers have found a partial fix to the high-gain antenna problem with the NASA-... [spacetoday.net] comments < 8:08:33 AM
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