In article , radiobuff0
@mailcity.moc says...
Keith wrote:
On 4 Mar 2004 09:28:09 -0800,
N2EY wrote:

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/03/03/104/?nc=1

73 de Jim, N2EY


At this point the ARRL is ****ing into a hurricane wind.
When BPL is deployed across America hams will find themselves
at the end of civil litigation lawsuits for intentional
interference to a computer system.
You can all rant about part 97, but civil litigation has
nothing to do with FCC rules. To defend yourself you
will need to pay an attorney a $50,000 retainer and years
of court fights.
Who has the money to spend on lawyers? Hams with home owner
insurance policies will find out their insurance will pay
off any lawsuit and if the ham refuses to stop operating
a ham station at the home they will lose their home owner
insurance.

The future for Ham Radio is a black hole.


Just get a number of hams in an area with mobile units, have them drive
around BPL areas engaging in legal HF contacts. That will knock out BPL
first here, then there, then over here, then over there. It will be very
difficult to pin it down to any one ham or even prove hams are doing it,
yet if they keep knocking users off often enough the users will get
tired of BPL and go back to whatever they were using before. Fight fire
with fire.

Well think of it this way. It wouldn't be too expensive to design simple
RF devices that radiated in the band of say 14 to 27 MHz now would it? A
continuous wave at say, a couple watts and tossed in various points of
the city. Once the batteries died out they'd go crazy. Then of course
you could retrieve said devices (Very carefully mind you!) and it would
make the engineers go crazy.

But the mobile solution is nice too. Good luck finding the problem when
it's transient.