On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:39:39 +0000, Fractenna wrote:

Working together with BPL is the best course for ham radio.

Unfortunately, everybody knows that BPL will hinder HF. There is no
argument here as all testing shows this. The question is really how much
is acceptable. 5db/m increase in noise floor at 500M nor 9uV/m at 10M of
interference is not acceptably to me on any HF freq. Goodbye QRP,
especially if you live in the sticks! You may never hear distant shortwave
broadcast again unless you live miles from a powerline.

Testing in the united states has not been truthful, utilizing Shoody test
techniques and deception. They even picked a test community with
underground power lines and no nearby amateurs. I'm willing to bet that
all the people are on cable/DBS TV and nobody had a shortwave radio.

BPL is bad and the FCC knows it. So does FEMA, the military and the
coastguard. That is why they have provisions in the regulations for them
(and them only) to restrict BPL away from their facilities. Hams will not
have this protection. Both the British and Germans pulled BPL when field
test revealed the true nature of the interference.

Why wait until it's too late to do anything about. If you wait, you lose.
The WSJ (Wall Street Journal)is there to promote business. BPL is business
and amateur radio is not. I will let others painfully expand about these
politics on many vectors. ;-)

Please, if you value radio, it only takes a few minutes to fill out a FCC
comment.... better safe than sorry.

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