Barry OGrady wrote:

What needs to be weighed up is the cost/benefit ratio.
If BPL can benefit a huge number of people while inconveniencing a few amateurs
then it is justified. Remember that amateur radio is a hobby that unjustifiably occupies
valuable radio spectrum.

Yeah, that's exactly the problem we face (well, that and a lack of
appreciation for irony, judging by some of the responses I'm seeing to
your post)...non-hams, including a lot of businesspeople involved in
lines that are looking for more frequencies to use, look at it from just
that perspective: hamming is a fringe hobby that eats up valuable
spectrum and provides nothing to the average person that they can't
already get from the Internet. That's the superficial sound-byte
opinion, and people won't invest much time in trying to get beyond that.
One can only educate those who want to be educated...

73, David KC0EKV