It would seem prudent to have the ARRL petition the FCC to raise amateur
power limits to partially recover that lost 10 dB. I think perhaps a 10 kw
limit would be close enough. It might also make BPL communications a bit
dicey too
Seriously, however, it is going to be interesting when BPL lines are found
adjacent to an active amateurs' property. BPL *will* be affected by rf.
Fire up your gallons.
73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA
"Len Over 21" wrote in message
...
In article , Mike Coslo
writes:
N2EY wrote:
In article , JJ
writes:
Now we will see if the FCC will abide by their own part 15 rules and
shut BPL down until when/if the problem is fixed. Anyone want to bet
they don't?
No.
I think/hope what will really kill BPL is economics. It simply won't be
able
to
compete with DSL, cable and other technologies.
So many times in history, Ideology has chosen to ignore everything but
that ideology's belief. That is one of the reasons that idealogs hate
science.
As absurd as it may seem, the BPL push is part of current ideology. As
such, as long as the current ideology is in place, BPL WILL HAPPEN! Once
it comes up against science and laws of nature, as well as the
marketplace, it will quite simply fail.
Sad to say, BPL (and PLC) already happened. Three areas now and
a fourth coming on-line soon in the USA.
According to NTIA and that wonderful Michael Gallagher (Asst.
something or other there) praising the snit out of BPL, BPL offers
some wonderful things ahead -
1. Powerline noise will actually DROP as a result of installing BPL
since untilies must fix that in order for BPL to get data through!
2. Existing BPL systems 'merely' raise the HF noise floor the
small amount of 10 db. Not a problem says them in Phase
2 study.
3. President Bush (the younger) says "the country needs BPL"
and the party faithfull followers reprise that throwaway mantra.
Ergo, if da Prez say 'we' need it, then 'we' need it. End msg.
"Idealogues?" Nah. "Take-the-lobbyist-handout-monies-and-run-
logues."
Don't worry about any HF receiver sensitivity values in the future.
Won't matter. Noise floor will have moved up 10 db and a Noise
Factor of 20+ in a front end will do the job in that hash.
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