wrote:
wrote:

BPL,,, We dont want any stinking BPL!
cuhulin

You got that right!

If the shortwave listening community really feels that way, it is
critical that, organizationally and individually, you assess BPL
interference where it is occurring worldwide, and then report it as
interference.

So far, Amateur Radio has been the squeaky wheel, and all industry
efforts by individual companies have been to protect amateur radio.
Those of you with S meters will understand that in the 15 or so BPL
sites I have been to do do testing, I saw S9+ (extremely strong)
interference levels across tens of MHz spectrum as much as a half mile
down power lines. This would effectively put and end to shortwave
listening on the spectrum that BPL uses.

ARRL's information on BPL has some videos that are well worth watching.
See http://www.arrl.org/bpl.

BPL is in a number of cities in the US now, operating at these strong
levels on the shortwave bands. Yet formal reports have not been filed.

See http://p1k.arrl.org/~ehare/bpl/ex2.html for a list of the places
where BPL is deployed.

ARRL has the standing to speak for Amateur Radio, but its information
has been put together in a way that other services can use it to assess
whether BPL will have an impact. It cannot speak for other radio
services, for a number of good and necessary reasons.

Ed Hare,