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From: emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
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Subject: Re: Important Petition/Technology
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Date: 11 Apr 91 07:06:36 GMT
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In article <14131@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Steve Klingsporn) writes:
>From ccncsu!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!pro-angmar.UUCP!awillis Wed Apr 10 13:29:13 MDT 1991
>Apple Computer recently asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to
>allocate frequencies so computer users will be able to transmit and receive
>information among personal computers (particularly portable and notebook-style
>computers), using radio (instead of cables) in a local radius of about 50
>meters indoors.  We need your help to make this possible.
>
> [ ... deleted ... ]

Hmmm...This already exists...ever hear of Amateur Packet radio?  The
baud rates aren't fast, and use is stricly non-commercial, but at least
there's no silly 50 meter limits.

I won't support such a proposal as the one mentioned about.  The FCC
will simply, in all likelihood, steal more bandwidth from us Amateurs,
as they have continually been doing for the past several years.
Unfortunately there isn't much space left in the RF spectrum...

Well, this doesn't really belong in this newsgroup, so...

			L. Scott Emmons
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