On 25/08/05, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > you mention (shortwave, etc.) actually should matter to any of us, now > that we have the Internet, which is far better than any of those options > (most of us never could operated *servers* for these technologies, but can > do so on the Internet. Also, Internet *clients* are far more versetile than > the clients of these older technologies you mentioned).
All this technology is great, and better than shortwave, but: A. Shortwave is widely deployed and used, practically everywhere in the marine and avionic world, for emergency and for daily use B. Shortwave is a simple and reliable technology. In case of emergency, it is immeasurably easier to set up a shortwave station. Not to mention build one from available parts. Let's meet after the EMP pulse hits and see who has emergency services faster. C. I had email sent on S&F systems over shortwave at 9600 baud when most people's modems were 1200 baud, so don't diss it. BPL does threaten to hurt shortwave quite a bit, and this is precisely the reason why it won't come to be, IMHO - quite a bit will be way too much in case of emergency. -- Arik 4Z5RX ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
