Well, folks, I guess it's time we dusted off our soldering irons and
machine tools. We're all going to have to use amplifiers to
communicate over the noise. A couple hundred watts just ain't gonna
cut it.

Hey, if our noise floor goes up by another ten to 20 dB, then we'll
need at least that much power to make up for it. I think I'll
petition the FCC to allow Extra Class hams the right to use up to 25
kW.

What's that? It would trash the BPL system for at least a mile in
every direction? Well, gosh, what did they expect?


Jake Brodsky, AB3A
"Beware of the massive impossible!"

Well, When you get the mail or phone call to sell the service in your area,
stop them at the beginning and ask for the number / address / email address
for their ''adaptive interference-mitigation" department. Correspond via
(e)mail I think is preferred.

I wonder if we should copy the FCC on any correspondence..... ... ... . . .
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"Jake Brodsky" wrote in message
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Well, folks, I guess it's time we dusted off our soldering irons and
machine tools. We're all going to have to use amplifiers to
communicate over the noise. A couple hundred watts just ain't gonna
cut it.

Hey, if our noise floor goes up by another ten to 20 dB, then we'll
need at least that much power to make up for it. I think I'll
petition the FCC to allow Extra Class hams the right to use up to 25
kW.

What's that? It would trash the BPL system for at least a mile in
every direction? Well, gosh, what did they expect?


Jake Brodsky, AB3A
"Beware of the massive impossible!"

Steve Nosko wrote:

Well, When you get the mail or phone call to sell the service in your area,
stop them at the beginning and ask for the number / address / email address
for their ''adaptive interference-mitigation" department. Correspond via
(e)mail I think is preferred.

I have the feeling that the broadbanders are gonna try to sell this
using
the same lie that the phone utils are selling with respect to DSL:
someday we'll
bring service to your rural area, but we can't tell you when. They'll
use the
argument that it will benefit the rural consumer.

They'll be more interested in picking the low-hanging fruit (i.e. urban
residential, where the population density will support their investment
in installing
equipment) whereas the rural population density will be too low to make
retrofitting
the power utilies profitable. So rural customers (like me) STILL will
not be able to
get broadband service*, but the broadbanders might still get to wreck
SW reception
for everyone in town.

* yes, yes, I know we can get ISDN or satellite, but around here ISDN
is way expensive
for (2) 64kb channels, and latency through satellite is too long to
support VPN.

later,
L