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BPL and UPS
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 |
"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 Actually there is some possibility that users who try BPL will dump it because the commercial broadcast systems (radio and TV), public service, etc will cause them problems and they'll decide to move to something else (back to phone, or to DSL, or cable modem and so on). There's quite a bit of RF floating around any city these days. It the urban areas don't use it, the rural areas will never get a chance to try it as it probably won't be uneconomical to set it up just for rural areas. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
"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 Actually there is some possibility that users who try BPL will dump it because the commercial broadcast systems (radio and TV), public service, etc will cause them problems and they'll decide to move to something else (back to phone, or to DSL, or cable modem and so on). There's quite a bit of RF floating around any city these days. It the urban areas don't use it, the rural areas will never get a chance to try it as it probably won't be uneconomical to set it up just for rural areas. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message .com... "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 Actually there is some possibility that users who try BPL will dump it because the commercial broadcast systems (radio and TV), public service, etc will cause them problems and they'll decide to move to something else (back to phone, or to DSL, or cable modem and so on). There's quite a bit of RF floating around any city these days. It the urban areas don't use it, the rural areas will never get a chance to try it as it probably won't be uneconomical to set it up just for rural areas. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE Corrections: "...If the urban areas don't use it,..." "...probably won't be economical..." Sometimes a person is just too tired to organize their thoughts properly. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message .com... "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 Actually there is some possibility that users who try BPL will dump it because the commercial broadcast systems (radio and TV), public service, etc will cause them problems and they'll decide to move to something else (back to phone, or to DSL, or cable modem and so on). There's quite a bit of RF floating around any city these days. It the urban areas don't use it, the rural areas will never get a chance to try it as it probably won't be uneconomical to set it up just for rural areas. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE Corrections: "...If the urban areas don't use it,..." "...probably won't be economical..." Sometimes a person is just too tired to organize their thoughts properly. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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 |
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 |
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