"starman" wrote in message
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The test will come when someone files a law suit against a BPL provider,
siting interference to some area of the HF spectrum. Until then it's
hard to say what the future of BPL will be.

I see at least *some* hope where this is concerned. At least a couple of
power companies shut down their BPL field trials before their scheduled
end-dates. Check out these articles:

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/08/06/2/?nc=1

http://www2.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/06/28/2/

I only hope that most power companies considering implementing this
technology will come to see the BPL profit to loss ratios as being far
skewed towards the latter rather than the former.

Jackie