On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:16:48 -0500, Frank Dresser wrote
(in message ):

I suppose, except for the RFI. What can we SWLs do if there's nothing but
BPL hash on the radio?

Frank, I don't know if this is related whatsoever 'cuz I, too, know nothing
about BPL.

When I was in college in the mid 60's, the campus radio station used the
campus power lines rather than a RF transmitter to broadcast.

The main reason I remember it was that there would occasionally be problems
with the signal over power lines (but not the power per se) and soime dorms
could get the station and some - usually one or two - would be cut off for a
day or two.

I'm not sure there is any relationship; just thought I'd throw this up bwg.



Gray Shockley
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Entropy Maintenance Technician
Tao Chemical Company
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http://www.cybercoffee.org/
Vicksburg, Mississippi US

"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
...

Frank, I don't know if this is related whatsoever 'cuz I, too, know
nothing
about BPL.

When I was in college in the mid 60's, the campus radio station used the
campus power lines rather than a RF transmitter to broadcast.

The main reason I remember it was that there would occasionally be
problems
with the signal over power lines (but not the power per se) and soime
dorms
could get the station and some - usually one or two - would be cut off for
a
day or two.

I'm not sure there is any relationship; just thought I'd throw this up
bwg.



Gray Shockley
--------------------------
Entropy Maintenance Technician
Tao Chemical Company
--------------------------

http://www.cybercoffee.org/
Vicksburg, Mississippi US




Reliability is very much related in the general sense that BPL is a largely
unproven technology.

I'd like to know how these transformer bypasses will handle multiple
lightning hits. The pole tranformer gives a bit of lightning surge
protection, and I'd hope the bypassed transformers would be at least as
good.

Frank Dresser

"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:16:48 -0500, Frank Dresser wrote
(in message
):

I suppose, except for the RFI. What can we SWLs do if there's nothing
but
BPL hash on the radio?

Frank, I don't know if this is related whatsoever 'cuz I, too, know
nothing
about BPL.

When I was in college in the mid 60's, the campus radio station used the
campus power lines rather than a RF transmitter to broadcast.

The main reason I remember it was that there would occasionally be
problems
with the signal over power lines (but not the power per se) and soime
dorms
could get the station and some - usually one or two - would be cut off for
a
day or two.

I'm not sure there is any relationship; just thought I'd throw this up
bwg.



Gray Shockley


Yeah my dormitory did the same thing 35 years ago so BPL is hardly "new".

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE