"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote:

The companies pushing BPL are clearly doing a massive snow job or they have no techincal copmetence,
and that isn't at all likely. They know what this stuff will cause, assuming they do have competent
people and aren't squelching them for the good of the "cause".

Gets down to who is snowing who. I doubt that the power companies have
much in the way of inhouse expertise in the field. It appears that
those who have the big interest in BPL are the firms who have the
expertise, such as it might be, and want to sell their wares to the
power companies. Might be that the power companies were the first
layer to get snowed and now they're at the same game with the FCC.
Looks to me like these outfits are small startups looking for a reason
to exist, none of 'em ring any bells as proven Internet heavyweights.

We don't know who, at what level of competence at FCC is listening
to whom, and *who will decide*, and *on what basis*.

Opaque as hell, so much for "open government". Particularly with the
current administration. But we already knew that.

If "the fix is in" the fight
obviously becomes much, much tougher, and may require court action after the
R&O, and if that's the way it plays out, it HAS to be contested.

Something is going on within the FCC, why did the OET extend the reply
comment period?? I think that's a pretty unusual maneuver. And it was
done by an FCC technical office. I doubt the FCC high-level no-clues
would have let that happen if a real fix was in. Something is up.

This simply won't fly in the real
world. I spent a career working with a statewide Public Safety
communications system that simply could not co-exist with BPL. I can't
imagine those people jsut sitting
on their hands and letting BPL become fact.

Isn't there some sort of national organization for emergency services
techs & engineers?

I haven't spent the hours and hours it would require due to the plodding dialup I use, to read
extensively in the posted comments at FCC website, but I sure wonder if any of the Pub Safety people
are paying attention. I know most of them would love to move up to some U/SHF trunked system but the $$$
involved is prohibitive today, and they WON'T be doing that any time soon, so they'd sure better fight
this off.

My knee-jerk reaction to this was "where are the heavy-hitters like
Motorola" who have a vested interest in lo-band VHF ops?" Silly me,
Motorola would love to have the lo-band trashed in order to move
*everybody" up the spectrum whether the taxpayers can afford it or
not.

Or do the pros already know BPL is going nowhere and can't be bothered
with getting into it??

This bull has more horns than I can count.

Time to ship Carl back to Washington to do something actually useful
this time.


Dick

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