"John Smith" wrote in message
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Jim:

I don't think I have ever made a statement or post to "reduce testing" or
even make it one question easier...

You are attempting to sneak in an argument of your own design and form a
false to what is being argued. Most, if not all, this is about is dumping
morse, an un-needed, under-used, ancient form of communication that a very
good portion of amateurs never use...

If they have some way of using ~1.72 - 80Mhz for BPL, go for it, at the
most they will only interfere with an insignificant number of hobby
users... business/corporate america can adapt to other freqs, indeed, the
boost on the whole to industry by updating the net will out weigh any
negative effects. Military can use satellites...

John


John, 60 meters is being tried for amateur use on a secondary basis - and
will likely experience some interference for the primary users.

As Len mentioned, there still are a lot of services using HF. The cellphone
and Internet set are likely not aware of them. Users like low-band VHF used
for long-haul trucking (somewhere around 40 MHz; I'm not exactly sure).
Also, Channel 2 television runs from 54 to 60 MHz. Channel 3 television
runs from 60 to 66 MHz. That still falls below 80 MHz and can be interfered
with. Not likely in the primary service area, but get near the fringe and
forget the picture with BPL. Of course, BPL will likely try and run in the
cities where the cost is lower. Of course, many folks are on cable and/or
satellite, so that won't bother most.

One needs to look at the whole picture. There *are* services other than
amateur radio in the HF spectrum. I hope you don't think that amateur radio
has 50% or more of the HF spectrum


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA