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From: John Smith on Tues 9 Aug 2005 10:41
To all: The majority of people who communicate use the internet (well, phones and cell phones too.) Email, Instant Messaging, blogs, newsgroups, webpages, IRC chat, etc, etc... and these communications take place on a worldwide scale and virtually touch the life of every citizen in first AND second world countries. Close but not quite the cigar. Since BPL would be a MAJOR GAIN to the majority of people communicating (using the internet) it would be one MAJOR MISTAKE to allow a handful of hams, an insignificant number of the people using communications (and then, theirs is only a hobby communication) to control the destiny of BPL simply because it interferes with an insignificant number of hobby users. Tsk, what started out nice became a Trollcast. BPL is just another way to access the Internet. It has yet to be proven "anywhere" for the simple reason that electric power lines were NEVER characterized as HF-VHF signal transmission lines nor was the electric power distribution gred. The variability in characteristic impedance and an almost-random set of discontinuities along any electric power distribution installation makes it a strong - and unstandardizable - RF EM wave launching area in many, many, many places along that electric power grid. Radio amateurs are NOT the only users of the HF and low-VHF EM spectrum in the USA. To see who are, go into the NTIA and NTIS Reports that were released in 2004. With a little searching you can find the Access BPL Comments on the FCC website. It will be nothing short of a crime to allow this insignificant number to influence BPL at all. The FCC and any public official(s) found doing so, and being so influenced, should be reprimanded harshly! Not quite. [way too much exaggeration for Trollcast copy] What the FCC actually did was "allow" A NEW DATA DISTRIBUTION system to EXIST IN THE FCC REGULATIONS. It's under the "unintentional radiators" in the OET jargon...but it is ALSO cognizant of the measured FACT that every "test" installation of BPL HAS RADIATED RF in HF through low-VHF. OK, first the FCC *recognized* that BPL exists, legally and in public. [turns on a spotlight, pretty or not] Second, the FCC has NOT ALLOWED EXCESS RADIATION BEYOND THE EXISTING SPECIFICATIONS for unintentional radiators. That is muy importante...the BPL folks just haven't got as free a hand as they thought at first. Third, the FCC (and the BPL folks) have a difficult mutual problem: An HF measurement method that is ACCEPTIBLE to all parties for "near-field" HF radiated power levels. That's most important to avoid years and years of legal wrangling for any particular RFI case. Actually, the FCC, while POLITICALLY approving Access BPL as to its existance, has also (courtesy of the OET) STUCK the BPL providers with a lot of *required* controls and record-keeping and having to actually shut down part of the BPL data spectrum if there are enough interference reports. How this self-serving bunch of closed-membership hams even hope to stop tens of millions (hundreds of millions?) from these benefits, all so they can set and enjoy their little hobby, staggers the mind and leads one to doubt the sanity of those who would participate in this scam! John, have you been getting your peyote from Gilroy, CA? :-) Internet access providers range from POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) through "high-speed" DSL through TV cable providers' two-way data paths to "Wi-Fax" low microwave links. BPL is a newcomer and NOT a dependable one for data transmission everywhere. Amateur policy needs to get rid of its' self-serving element and demonstrate they have good judgment and will hold their self-serving interests above the interests and benefits of the hundreds of millions of american citizens. It the stark light of reality amateur radio is seen in the perverted state it has fallen into. This has happened by allowing men and women of question character to control the destiny of amateur radios' course--this needs to change direction and restore the dignity to this hobby which it once held, decades ago. [yup, Gilroy for sure!] If there is not a clear rule, regulation or tradition in amateur radio which directs its members (licensees) to always behave in a manner which holds the interests, benefits and well being of the citizens of the united states in paramount importance, one SHOULD be placed there. It's been in existance since before 1928 and "The Amateur's Code" as propagated by the ARRL out of Newington. However, it seems a natural principle educated men or worth, intelligence and caliber would hold to... and here, upon this simple test, you can weed the chaff from the grain... If any reader wonders, the grinding noise you hear is the bust of Thomas Jefferson slowly shaking his head from side to side up on Mount Rushmore. Tsk, John, he gonna give you some o' dem oratory lessons! tom abe |
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