"Brian Kelly" wrote in message
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(N2EY) wrote in message
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In article , "Kim W5TIT"
writes:
"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Ryan,
KC8PMX"
writes:
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,
If you have a 6 meter rig that can go mobile, you're set up to
measure/observe
(and report) BPL interference.
73 de Jim, N2EY
heh heh. Yeah, and any ham worth being a ham would have a 6-meter rig
that
can go mobile so they can measure/observe (and report) BPL
interference.
Right?
IIRC, Ryan has mentioned being active on 6 meters. So there's a good
chance he
has such a rig already.
FWIW I haven't run into any documented instances of BPL operating as
high as 50 Mhz yet. The BPL signals I've listened to in the Emmaus PA
ran between 3 Mhz to somewhere just above 22 Mhz. That's pretty narrow
by "broadband standards". If/when they get more users doing who knows
what I suppose the BPL band edges will expand both up & down.
73 de Jim, N2EY
w3rv
Lets see now...3 to 22 Mhz.....80/75, 40, 30, 20, 17 and 15 meters turned
into a wideband wasteland. With plans to expand to 12, 10, and six meters.
Yep...thats a real good thing.
We could all go to 160 and fight the 50/9 QRN most of the year, or 12 and
ten which are dead during the low of the cycle, which we are heading for.
Yep, lots to look forward to.
Dan/W4NTI