At the request of the TT administrators, AA6YQ responded directly to my email. Except where noted, I will not quote all of his comments. quote all of his comments" Dave's email response to me is his
Great. Then let's get the sewer companies involved in providing broadband access; they've got fat pipes into lots of houses. Seriously, if national defense and homeland security are truly priorities,
I meant "Who besides the power industry can make the grid reliable and secure?". 73, Dave, AA6YQ Who besides the power company? Easy! A third party could easily pay the power company for bandwidth ac
My response to Mr. Fallows regarding his article in today's NY Times: James, your article "Is Broadband Out of a Wall Socket the Next Big Thing?" begins by stating that HomePlug and BPL are the same;
Attacking BPL on the primary grounds that it causes severe radio interference to hams, CBers, and SWLs is a bad idea. Why? Because too much of the audience will wonder why we should hold back the adv
If you dislike directness, then you're right, we won't work well together -- particularly if you focus on word choice over substance. For an example of my ability to create an effective web site, see
The information below arrived just arrived in the middle of the The ARRL Letter, Vol. 23, No. 28. It contains exactly the information I suggested be disseminated. Since not everyone gets these, or re
A recent post on the Yahoo BPL reflector contains a BPL article by David Lazarus, an SF Bay-area journalist, that includes quotes from the president of a local radio club. See http://groups.yahoo.com
Last Sunday, the New York Times carried an article by Jim Fallows entitled "Is Broadband Out of a Wall Socket the Next Big Thing?". I sent him an email message challenging several of his assertions,
Given the magnitude of the threat we face, the ARRL should create within itself a single organization responsible and accountable for defeating BPL. All activities -- including PR -- should be driven
1. I will not participate in, much less establish, an anti-BPL effort outside of the ARRL; that would be counterproductive. 2. I have already volunteered to help the ARRL effort. 3. I would rather co
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. Allia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BPLandHamRadio/ 73, Dave, AA6YQ I know there is one, main reflector where BPL/ham radio issues are being discussed, on yahoogroups I think. I've seen it mentioned here,
I agree that we should stay out of the financial projection business, Ford. We should be in the "raise reasonable doubts" business; for example 1. Why would a cable or DSL subscriber switch to BPL, g
If an electric utility is the customer's ISP, there's no reduction in the cost of whatever on-premises hardware is required to provide real-time load optimization. Either the customer is persuaded to
Sorry if my reference to President Bush and the current administration introduced a partisan twist. That was not my intent; I meant only to cite the recent actions that underly my concerns. As have m
If BPL gets deployed, we'll need some ECM. Since BPL advocates occasionally cite energy management as a rationale for deploying BPL, its a useful topic to understand. They don't push very hard on thi
Our focus should be on raising awareness. We can provide contact information from suppliers like Vivato, and we can highlight the flaws in BPL, but the decision-making process should be left to the c
Dave, Just playing devil's advocate here. There are many different SCADA-type systems that could be developed and used by utilities but all have one common thing that's missing today: Network Infras
+++AA6YQ comments below Dave, Why are you focused on the home PC??? You need to think outside the PC box. +++I did consider several alternatives involving independent microprocessor-based boxes, but