On Aug 21, 10:39 pm, Tom Brown wrote:
John Smith I wrote:
http://www.redherring.com/Home/22562

JS

Golly....I'm unwilling to read through a litany of knee-jerk responses;
did anybody notice that this BPL deployment is Current Communications?
And, does anybody know that they utilize 30 -50 MHz on the overhead
segments and the HomePlug protocol on the LV segments (Homeplug notches
the Amateur bands).

In Ohio, Current passes 10,000 homes and NOT ONE HAM COMPLAINT. Why is
this? Simple. Not in our backyard.

No surprise there. How many active hams live in that particular BPL
service area? Cincinnati . . . ? .

And don't tell me I don't know about this - I stood toe-to-toe with
Progress Energy engineers in NC prior to the FCC 04-37 ruling; measured,
wrote and got dirty in the process.

Where was everybody else?

In Emmaus PA with my trusty 'ole TS-50S mobile HF xcvr. With Ed Hare
W1RFI, Carl WK3C and with Bob W3HJ and his beacoup kilobucks (HP?
Tek?) spectrum analyzer. Which very graphically and chillingly
illustrated how the OFDM BPL in that neighborhood was completely
trashing most of the HF ham bands I'd previously tuned with the TS50.
Talk about 599 crap . . !

BPL can be deployed outside the Amateur Bands without insult within our
allocations.

Have you ever heard about what happens when you let the camel "just
poke his nose into the tent"?

73,

Tom N4TAB

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