Click on the link, or copy and paste into your browser, to listen to the story via streaming audio. They finish the story with a short rebuttal by ARRL's Ed Hare. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s
I encourage everyone to augment Ed's rebuttal - they clearly cropped his comments so sharply that they lost much of the impact they should have had. If you go to NPR.ORG there is a very accessible e-
Since it is NPR maybe the way to respond is to appeal to the "greenies" by suggesting this is a conspiracy of big government and big business to pollute the environment. And that the electromagnetic
Telling them they did a "bad job" is meaningless. Hams are also significantly less important to the rest of the world when compared to granny accessing pictures. If the general public had a choice in
And I do enjoy morning edition !!!!!! my email to them reads: The current BPL causes interference to frequencies used by airlines , as well as state police radios & rural fire departments. The govern
" The white house wants BPL..." Where is this fact published? 73, Don _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/
...Motorola appears to have a version of BPL that does "NOT" pollute the amateur spectrum. Perhaps folks should get up to speed on this version of BPL and promote it as the solution to the current co
President Bush will facilitate the development of the technical specifications necessary to enable the widespread deployment of broadband over powerlines (BPL). ______________________________________
Go to the archives of the BPLandHamRadio yahoogroup to search for references on Bush's support. There are plenty of them. Hate to get political here on RFI. I am a complete supporter of Bush, but I e
Great minds think alike -- I made each of those points in my response. But in any case, someone mentioned to me in a direct e-mail that on this morning's ME, they read an e-mail received from a ham w
sorry don, i was trying to refer to the previous "facts" about emissions in the hf freqs. bill _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.contest
Probably the very best strategy would be to do a cost analysis of BPL compared to wireless. What about reliability? BPL gear would be knocked down every time a lightning bolt flashes. I know my ISDN
It can also be pointed out that BPL and other digital rubbish such as IBOC and DRM could effectively jam interception of unwelcomed news, information and political opinion, much more effectively than
A few months ago there was a story circulating of the development of a non-polluting BPL system that uses microwave frequencies instead of HF/VHF. It used the power lines to act as sort of a wave gu
Tom, But what if the utility's main reason for building out BPL is for energy applications instead of internet? Such as DA, AMR, outage reporting, energy load control, time-period rate-discounting, a
It's accessible from the archives of ME, starting at 1 minute 11 seconds into the cut. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4804900 Don K4KYV ________________________________________
Really quite excellent - no reference to amateur radio at all, just to interference potential and bad technology. I think they got the message. 73, Pete ______________________________________________
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As noted, a VERY effective rebuttal was read today on Morning Edition. So the local reporter, Wade Goodwin, who reported the story was hornswoggled, but at least NPR had the professionalism to choose