[RFI] RadCom (RSGB) Article on BPL

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Eric Rosenberg wrote:
>The August, 2004 issue of RadCom from the RSGB has an article, "The 
>RSGB and Power Line Telecommunications (PLT), by Angus Annan, MM1CCR, 
>"the RSGB Board member for the Environment portfolio and Chair of the 
>RSGB EMC Committee."
>
>The article is available on the RSGB website (www.rsgb.org).
>
>There are some worthwhile references:
>
>The RSGB EMC committee website:  http://www.qsl.net/rsgb_emc
>PLT sounds:  http://www.qsl.net/rsgb_emc/pltsounds.html

The PLT link at www.rsgb.org contains most of the same  information, and 
may load more quickly.

Unfortunately neither site has been updated recently, so it's missing 
the really big development: British Telecom has decided to roll out ADSL 
broadband to all telephone exchanges (well, all but the very tiniest and 
most remote) in the next 12-15 months. BT are also working on extending 
the 4-mile limit from exchange to subscriber by various means, notably 
wireless.

This kills the economic case for PLT/BPL in the UK stone-dead.

But that isn't to say we've heard the last of it. EMC problems do seem 
to come back like Dracula...


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73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek