[RFI] Better Balanced BPL story

[Ed -K0iL]

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From:	CliffHazen at aol.com
The Electrical Power industry does not have to overturn the laws of 
physics,
just take over the frequency allocations by changing FCC application of its 
own regulations.

Not only is your description very perceptive, but there already is an 
example out there on how to accomplish just that.  If you want to see how 
BPL might turn out in the future for Amateur Radio, watch the 800Mhz 
rebanding controversy as it unfolds.

First, Nextel got a set of 800Mhz freqs that were interleaved with other 
users, particularly public safety.  Then they installed a "new digital 
technology" (iDEN) within their channels that lead to interference to 
neighboring channels as a result of the nature of mixing their digital 
technology with low antenna sites interleaved with analog system users on 
high sites.  The result was and is dead spots in the analog systems near 
every cell site.  On trunked systems, the PS radios become bricks unable to 
transmit or receive.

Nextel's proposed solution?  Public Safety should move!  This gives both of 
them contiguous spectrum.  They've also proposed that they (Nextel) would 
pay up to $500M in relocation costs.  That's like having a neighbor with a 
loud stereo blasting away telling you to move if you don't like it!  And 
he'll pay for the cardboard boxes for you to pack.

Guess what?  The FCC is entertaining Nextel's proposal; and now there are 
dozens of other proposals in order to attempt to lessen the impact and ask 
for more relocation money.  They're going thru much the same process with 
BPL now that they went through with Nextel so far.  The outcome could be 
very revealing.

73,
de ed -K0iL