You had me up until the end, when the real purpose of your post became apparent, but I will answer your questions anyway. :-) I will point out that I am not publicizing the specific information I ha
I appreciate the offer, but your word choices in your exchange with me show me that, as a minimum, you and I will not be able to work well together. As a maximum, it shows that you may not be capabl
A Professor at the University of Michigan had done a nice business study report on BPL. The URL turned up busted, so for those that may link to it, here is the new URL: http://tprc.org/papers/2003/24
You have it rather wrong, Dave. ARRL has been seeking out BPL pilots, in some cases, notifying local hams before they are aware that they are underfoot. We have been working with local groups across
Well, I guess you are now a hindrance instead of a help now, too, Tom. :-) I have been glad to share the information I have with anyone who wants to do some serious BPL work, either by putting them i
Actually, this can be done reasonably easily. http://www.arrl.org/~ehare/aria/ARIA_MANUAL_TESTING.pdf What I need to add to that document is a table equating S units *approximately* to received sign
I encourage hams in BPL areas to be active. But the tone of some of the posts I have seen is downright scary, and there was no doubt what some had in mind. Intentionally interfering with anything is
Yes, but publishing street addresses of BPL installations won't help you sort out the difference between BPL and a washing machine. --Original Message-- ARRL has information on what to do if a field
When word got out that FCC Chairman Powell was goign to attend a BPL demo near Raleigh, the discussion on some lists literally was to have hams go there and disprupt that demo with 500-watt mobile s
The BPL modeling I have done couples energy onto the power lines in the same fashion as a sparking insulator. In this case, it appears that the horizontal wiring and the vertical ground wires both co
If you mean that you got no response from ARRL, posting a request to ARRL on a reflector is not a good way to get an answer. Media PR is not my baliwick, but ARRL has spent the contributions made so
Not being entirely sure what type of "PR" was being discussed, I cc'ed Jen Hagy, ARRL's Media Public Relations person and Mary Hobart, ARRL's Development Officer, who could address some of your conc
Dave, That is an unrealistic expectation. First, there are two entities within ARRL that oversee its operation. Its Board of Directors and its senior management. But none of them should be expected t
In some areas, especially those with hills, it is not uncommon to find low VHF being the spectrum of choice. In NY State, as one example, the plow trucks use it on simplex to coordinate snow removal
That about sums it up for me, too. Much of what "I" do is building on the work done by others, and I am more than pleased to serve as a conduit for that work. I had an interesting and productive exch
Few hams have the resources to collect their data in any other terms, Tom. I am not sure what to do about that. One one hand, gathering some information about the level of pre- and post-BPL noise is
I generally advise against the technique. In some cases, what is loose on the pole can come down. It would not be very productive to diagnose the problem by dropping the bad insulator through the win
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-H
I would modify that I am having a lot of trouble envisioning our media public relations staff responding to technical questions. Jen very much has the same problem with my speaking for her work with
I don't think it is as bad as you describe, Tom. While I agree that a step attenuator can do exactly what you say it can, I would bet that less than 5% of hams have one and know how to use it correct