Neither the BPL backgrounder nor the video
- explain BPL's technical challenges beyond RFI generation
- explain BPL's business challenges
- mention any hard facts substantiating the above (e.g. Alliant's 6/28
withdrawal from BPL in Cedar Rapids due to their inability
to mitigate the interference it generated)
- suggest that the power industry focus on getting its grid to
reliably distribute electricity
- outline a simple but cogent argument for abandoning BPL that can be
effectively used with a non-technical audience, with guidance for
special cases (e.g. reporters, local politicians, etc.)
The video does a very nice job of demonstrating the impact of
interference, but would be 10X more effective with non-ham audiences if
the impacted communications were those of law enforcement or public
safety rather than a ham net and Radio Nederland.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----
From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Hare,Ed, W1RFI
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 17:27
To: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [RFI] Why we badly need "party line" materials for all hams
In case it was missed in the back and forth:
Backgrounder on BPL:
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/bpl-deployment.html
Narrated BPL video:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/06/18/8/BPL-and-HF-web.mpg
Ed Hare, W1RFI
ARRL Laboratory Manager
225 Main St
Newington, CT 06013
Tel: 860-594-0318
Internet: W1RFI@arrl.org
Web: http://www.arrl.org/tis
Member: ASC C63 EMC Committee
Chairman: Subcommittee 5, Immunity
Chairman: Ad hoc BPL Working Group
Member: IEEE SCC-28 RF Safety
Member: Society of Automotive Engineers EMC/EMR Committee
Member: IEEE
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