I feel BPL will make many adversaries among
the power companies themselves. Currently AEP
uses a regional grid monitoring system that
monitors the power line status in real time using
data over the power lines.

Should BPL interfere with the Utility Company's
Monitoring Hardware, BPL will be put into
the ash can.

Some examples of Electric Utility monitoring:

http://www.powline.com/usrgroup/rating.html

http://www.softswitch.com/images/IAS...2%20I-Grid.pdf

http://www.softswitch.com/igrid-utility.htm

"Ed G." wrote in message
. ..

Remember how UPS made a big effort to persuade the FCC how they just
HAD
to have spectrum in the 220MHz Ham band? After a lot of arguing and
legal
wrangling, they got it.

Then, after they were awarded 2MHz of our 220MHz, remember how they
determined that it didn't really suit their needs and they ended up in
the
800MHz service anyway? ( I believe commercial SSB systems were given
the
220MHz portion for narrowband systems, which hasn't really worked out
very
well......)


Regarding BPL.... I wonder if a similar thing might happen?



Ed