Brenda Ann wrote:


To answer the first question, it's the $$$.. power companies and internet
providers lobbied the FCC for this boondoggle, and M. Powell is bending over
backward to accommodate big business (this is no secret, every single vote
the FCC has taken has been in favor of big business, and to hell with the
consumer.

Will we be suprised if/when BPL gets rolling and bringing in the big
bucks to see Mr. Powell and/or other top FCC officials, leave the FCC
for a cushy job at an outrageous salary at some BPL involved company as
a thank you for pushing BPL through? I think not.

"Ed G" wrote in message
48.75...
. Come to think of it, let me ask, and I'm probably
right in this guess... Was Japan one of those countries? And was it
anywhere near the 70s perhaps? Seems to me now that I think about it,
I did read an article of some power experiments back then in like
Popular Science or Electronics or something. Thinking more and more of
this, I can surely understand how much of a pain this may be. Thanks
again, I appreciate it. This may get interesting to say the least. MNS



Everything you want to know about the BPL issue can be found at:

http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/

... this includes the recent decision by Japan not to implement...
along with several other countries.


Ed WB6SAT



Thank you as well for your input. I shall look it up. MNS

because that ignorant ****** powell wants it to be.



MNS wrote:

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"MNS" wrote in message
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I've lost track of this BPL stuff.. What/who prompted this idea? Is
there
"anyone" trying to fight it's approval? Exactly what modes of operation
"may" be affected exactly? I've heard "low band VHF". Does anyone have a
website perhaps aside from the FCC's to read which describes in detail
perhaps who can use this, requirements to do so, where - if any
limitations,
etc.

BPL will affect frequecies between 1.8 and 75 MHz directly. Many countries
have experimented with it, and dropped it entirely because if
intereference
to other services. See the ARRL website (www.arrl.org) for links to
various
articles and such on BPL. Also see www.qrz.com.



Thank you... So I guess the question begs to be asked, if all of them other
countries tried it and it failed, then why the hell are we trying to do the
same thing? Talk about a huge waste of money and effort! Sheeesh.... Come to
think of it, let me ask, and I'm probably right in this guess... Was Japan
one of those countries? And was it anywhere near the 70s perhaps? Seems to
me now that I think about it, I did read an article of some power
experiments back then in like Popular Science or Electronics or something.
Thinking more and more of this, I can surely understand how much of a pain
this may be. Thanks again, I appreciate it. This may get interesting to say
the least. MNS