Darren, those are some interesting views. Nothing personal, but you sometimes omit attributions when citing other sources in your posts, which makes them sometimes difficult to reply to. Please clarify, if you will, if those views were yours alone, or someone else's you were quoting, so that I know where to send my rebuttal.
For example, "[fiber] at $250,000 per mile to install..."
Unless you are referring to pulling fiber on the moon, or over the Rockies exclusively, I know that that couldn't be your error. So whose was it? The benchmark used today is closer to between 40k and 85k, 100 on the outside when doing massive amounts of entrenchment and conduit placements.
On the lighter side, I wasn't born with a copper spoon in my mouth, if I'm one of the "those of you's" you were referring to. By no means.
I was born, however, with a 15 meter rotary beam antenna in my mouth, a Morse key strapped to my belt, an ARRL Hand Book strapped on my waist, and stranded guy wires hanging from my shoulders. I was all the talk of the hospital at the time, as you could imagine.
Oh, and yes, I also had some TVI filters in my diaper utility pockets to assuage my neighbors with, when Jack Parr started coming if funny. Actually, to a greater extent, it was to please my parents, since I was never one for neighborhood politics, at the time. Just an FYI. And all in good fun, of course...
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
