Saw Roger K8RI's post as well, but will try to answer as well.

Bay County has around 300 hams listed, Saginaw has almost 500 listed, and
Midland has about 230-250 listed as hams living in those areas. The Midland
Amateur Radio Club has about 80 members with about 20-30 actually active.
The Bay Area Amateur Radio Club has about 35-50 club members and has about
20 or so that are active and the Saginaw Valley Amateur Radio Association
has about 30 members with somewhere between 15-20 members active.

It's kinda funny though, with almost a thousand hams between 3 counties, I
sure as hell do not hear much on the ham bands, both HF and VHF/UHF. One
would think that they would hear a ton of radio usage but thats not the
case.... I would say that maybe 10-20% of the total population around here
is actually active on a regular basis. (that's probably true about alot of
things though...


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Ryan, KC8PMX
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"Howard" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:20:31 -0400, "Ryan, KC8PMX"
wrote:

Just found out today listening to a local, reputable radio station that
Bay,
Saginaw and Midland Counties in Michigan are going to be "test sites" for
BPL, at least for Michigan. I don't know when it will be an actual
reality,
as opposed to being in the planning stages, but will keep current with
their
project!


Ryan KC8PMX
Midland, Michigan

What the "ham density" like in the Tri-Cities these days? Moved away
27 years ago (Bay City/Essexville) and not having been a ham then I
was out of touch with such things. I do know that it wasn't too high
a population density overall - perhaps they are targeting low ham
population areas in the testing so they can show a low interference
complaint volume?

I think Carl's on track in his post; the more credible the reports of
interference the more likely they will be taken seriously.

Howard