In article , Steve Nosko wrote:
There are much better solutions in the works... Again, I'm not a
proponent, just saying there are those who are trying to minimize the
problems with an, unfortunately, inevitable thing.

I disagree with that. It's inevitable because Google was one of three
companies that invested $100,000,000 in Current Communications. If EVERY
HAM boycotted Google and made sure they and their advertisers knew it,
they would drop it like a hot potato.

Google exists because of their Adsense product. If advertising with
adsense lost customers instead of gaining them, then advertisers would
look for alternate ways to spend their money. If they did that, Google
would not continue their support of BPL.


The thing here is that Motorola at least kept in contact with one of the
groups opposing BPL rather than just ramming it into a power grid and
totally iognoring all reason/physics, even appropriate complaints.

I have not seen the technical specs of the Motorola system so I can't
comment on it, but the rumor is that it does work and does not interfere.


You mean if he DOES here Engilsh he will move the notch there and
the frequency will NOT be used? The notches go where the turned-off
carriers are so the residual energy gets attenuated even more.

Yes. If here he hears English, he will assume there is someone who can
point to his power lines and show there is a problem. If he hears another
language, he will assume that the people whom he will interfere with
are too far away to walk up to his wires and show they are a problem.

No argument with the rest of this. BPL is an unfortunately ignorant
approach to a non existent problem.

IHMO exactly.


Interesting that the article ignores the foreign systems which were shut
down, but then they were only given the party line...

Yes, it has been a dismal failure just about everywhere it has been
tested. It causes too much interference and works so poorly that no one
could afford it without a big sum of money up front. If they make $10 a
month profit from each customer it will take a long time and a lot of
users to get back $100,000,000.


This is called the boiled lobster effect.

I thought it was a Frog ? ! and I call it de-regulation.

Same thing, but more people know a boiled lobster than boiled frog.
To me it does not matter, they are both nonkosher. :-)

Geoff.

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You should have boycotted Google while you could, now Google supported
BPL is in action. Time is running out on worldwide radio communication.