[RFI] RFI Services bullcrap smell test :)

[Jim Brown]

The comments from Eddie Edwards and others who have noted the significance of the 
loading on the BPL system highlight the important point also made by W4EF -- if my data 
is in conflict with solid science and the experience of other good scientists, I need to 
check your science.   

In this case, your science appears to have been one-dimensional. That is, you ONLY know 
about the RF aspects of the system you were trying to measure, but didn't know enough 
about the modulation system or the data transmission methods to know that the system 
was not operating in a "normal" mode. Almost the equivalent of a SSB transmitter with no 
modulation. Yup, I listened and heard no RF!  

Such one-dimensionality is not unusual. I work in pro audio, and I regularly run into very 
good broadcast and RF guys who make huge messes of church sound systems. They get 
the system all hooked up and making plenty of sound, but because they know nothing 
about an important dimension of the problem -- acoustics -- the sound they make is all 
mush. 

73,

Jim Brown  K9YC

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:54:06 -0400, Mike Martin wrote:

>When I'm asked a question, the answer will be only from my experience.