Owen Duffy wrote:
(Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote in
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At worst some neighbor would get ****ed off that you are messing up
their Internet and start a FUD campaign to force you off the air for
"dangerous radiation".
Interesting that you mention that.
Some of our good friends in Tasmania started a FUD campaign to scare
ordinary electricity consumers about the electromagnetic raidation hazard
of electric blankets when they were BPL 'enhanced'.
Good grief. The answer is to power them with DC, and tell 'em that it
will serve as a magnet, thereby allowing magnetism's great healing
properties. Could sell little boxes with diodes in them. Maybe a crystal
or two for harmonic hegemony and celestial peace too.... ;^)
There is some steady, sound engineering / scientific work going on to
discover and reveal the impact of BPL, it is small in scale but IMHO
credible and ongoing. Uninformed and redneck comment from the amateur
community makes the job just that much harder.
I find much of the commentary very uninformed. Much of this has to do
with the Digital folks not understanding the RF folks, and vice versa.
Especially alarming is the digital folks not understanding that a high
speed digital signal is for all intents and purposes an RF signal. It
isn't 1's and 0's any more, it is an RF signal until it gets into the
computer.
Of course, the RF savants have a hard time understanding things like
"Whaatya mean Vista dropped my IP address, and the only cure is to
reboot. It's been working for three days now - it just couldn't suddenly
quit. Electronics doesn't work like that!"
At that point, I offer them the choice of being right, or getting
things working.
- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -