Unless your in a rural area with solar power capabilities or wind power several
miles from exisiting distribution lines I'm afraid you'll be susceptable.
Three years ago I had an opportunity to move out in the country far away from
traffic, cranky neighbors and line noise...now like a bad dream it's like a
nightmare. Any type of unintentional radiation on any band is unacceptable.
With my antenna's only 30 feet from the power lines part 15 won't help.
The BPL industry must find a way to notch frequencies that would interfere with
primary licensed users.
We can only hope for economic failure but that will take time....time that we
will have to endure.
73,
Randy
WX5L
>
> From: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
> Date: 2004/05/27 Thu PM 12:44:00 GMT
> To: <eedwards@tconl.com>, "'Pete Smith'" <n4zr@contesting.com>,
> "EDWARDS, EDDIE J" <eedwards@oppd.com>
> CC: rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [RFI] BPL on NPR
>
>
> Ed,
>
> It's doubtful that moving to the countryside will avoid
> the noise, if the system ever really builds-out widely.
> Propagation.
>
> As I said in an early post on the subject, and in some early
> advice to Dave Sumner....on its face, BPL isn't an economic
> provider of broadband, UNLESS there is another cash stream
> for the utilities. Like offsetting meter reading expenses,
> or the ability to provide system control/diagnostics via the
> wideband backchannel.
>
> I don't know enough about the power industry to know where
> the money is.
>
> Jim Jarvis
> 410 439 1073 office
> 443 618 5560 cell
> jimjarvis@ieee.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed -K0iL [mailto:eedwards@tconl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:25 PM
> To: 'Pete Smith'; EDWARDS, EDDIE J; jimjarvis@ieee.org
> Cc: rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [RFI] BPL on NPR
>
>
> Pete,
>
> I've not heard of any AMR being done on VLF or the old PLC because the data
> rates are just way too slow. PLC is mainly used for limited system control
> functions. Anything requiring a lot of data throughput like reading tens
> or hundreds of thousands of meters requires a real robust data channel.
> Something BPL broadband could provide.
>
> I'm not saying they'd put in BPL just for this-- they couldn't justify the
> costs. But if BPL goes in for Internet use then fails, the utility could
> convert the loss into other uses to lessen the impact; or if they're
> leasing the bandwidth to an ISP who owns the BPL equipment--then they could
> pay pennies on the dollar and buy it up for these other uses. The end
> result is it never goes away.
>
> BPL must be stopped before we all have to move into the countryside just to
> play HF.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Smith [SMTP:n4zr@contesting.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 May, 2004 8:41 PM
> To: EDWARDS, EDDIE J; jimjarvis@ieee.org
> Cc: rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [RFI] BPL on NPR
>
> At 05:05 PM 5/26/2004, EDWARDS, EDDIE J wrote:
> >I'm afraid that once a BPL system gets installed in any city, even
> >though the utility might not use it for providing broadband or ISP
> >services at some point, they will still have many uses for it from
> >Automated Meter Reading to Load management to traffic light controls and
> >on and on...
> >
> >Slow to die? I'm not sure it ever will unless the FCC says enough and
> >bands it. What's our chances of that happening?
> >
> >73, de ed -K0iL
>
>
> We need some clarification on this -- I understand that automated meter
> reading, etc are done at VLF.
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> The World HF Contest Station Database
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> 2706 contest stations at
> www.pvrc.org/WCSD/WCSDsearch.htm
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