BPL, HAMS, and First Amendment rights (Score 1)

Technology is obscuring the real issue in regard to polution of the Ham frequencies by anything. The FCC (aka Government) gives all of us free acces to a certain part of the radio spectrum. All other communication channels, other than smoke signals, are owned by vendors. If you talk on the power lines, the power companies own you. The FCC would love to sell off the Ham frequencies to private companies, or lock them up for goverment use. If these public resources become poluted by private vendors, we all suffer. Ham Radio was the original Open Source for communication. Wireless Geeks should learn from the masters and add their digital contributions to freedom of speach. Speach is not free if there's no way to communicate.