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To: Boplicity who wrote (29733)	11/30/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 77400

In some ways, this reminds me of an earlier time this century when the electrification of the U.S. was peoples' major excitement. No, I was not born then, but from my earlier studies, I recall reading how it was believed that bringing electricity to everyone would take years, and years, with most rural areas left out. Well, the U.S. got "electrified" a lot faster than anyone ever expected. Rural areas populated at that time [as against more recently moved into boonie-rural areas] did get electricity, thanks to rural electric cooperatives in numerous zones. Even for people with zero interest or knowledge of the stock market, this is one revolutionary period in human history. Re the DirectTV dishes that, "... They are pointing up to GEO sats. The communication between those is one way, you have to use a phone line for the up link." I know this and it is precisely because of this that I scratch my head when DirectTV holds out that ambiguous carrot about the high speed internet access to come "in the future." Despite not having been switched over yet, I have looked at the [pitiful little] DirectTV boxes at my neighbors' and they sure do not look as they have any transceiver capabilities to me--just dinky receivers that can only be used with a remote control. Off to Radio Shack. The local one has an employee who is a big-time ham/SW radio fan. I'm going to ask him about doing someting to an old PrimeStar dish so it can be used as an antennae (SW, I hope). Lynn