"Dick Chisel" wrote in message
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Remember, the FCC DOES NOT CARE MUCH ABOUT LONG DISTANCE RADIO
RECEPTION.

Well, maybe they should. There *ARE* other users of the HF spectrum, you
know--not just hams and SWLs.

Right. The first two which come to mind are the military and the airlines.
I expect the interference problem can be minimized by banning BPL from
certain areas. And I'm also sure that interference complaints from either
of those orginizations will be taken much more seriously than complaints
from the ARRL.


And there might not be enough of us to make them care.

Probably true. :-(

It's been suggested here that oversight of the public access parts of the
radio spectrum be taken from the FCC and given to The National Park Service.
If the public can enjoy the resource, then they will have an incentive to
protect it.

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser wrote:

The only politically safe way to show BPL is a failure is to let it fail.

Well, -theoretically-, that's true. However, many of the trials so far
*have* already been failures (from an interference standpoint). And the
FCC by ignoring their own rules, doesn't seem to care. And that's bad
because if it is not stopped now, but becomes widely entrenched with
millions invested, it will be economically too late to be killed.

Because of the demonstrated failures, NOW is the time to kill it...and,
for whatever reason, the FCC is in the full "Ignore" mode.

Because this is a political decision, not a technical one.

Absolutely correct, it is viewed as political, not technical. But there
is only one pesky little problem with that...NO ONE HAS YET REPEALED THE
LAWS OF PHYSICS!!!

Dick Chisel wrote:

Frank Dresser wrote:

The only politically safe way to show BPL is a failure is to let it fail.

Well, -theoretically-, that's true. However, many of the trials so far
*have* already been failures (from an interference standpoint). And the
FCC by ignoring their own rules, doesn't seem to care. And that's bad
because if it is not stopped now, but becomes widely entrenched with
millions invested, it will be economically too late to be killed.

Because of the demonstrated failures, NOW is the time to kill it...and,
for whatever reason, the FCC is in the full "Ignore" mode.

Because this is a political decision, not a technical one.

Absolutely correct, it is viewed as political, not technical. But there
is only one pesky little problem with that...NO ONE HAS YET REPEALED THE
LAWS OF PHYSICS!!!

Calm down Carter, it'll be OK.

dxAce
Michigan
USA