| Cheering the slow but ongoing BPL death Bring on Fiber and WI-FI even WI-MAX if as one persistant poster has stated "there is no Interference" why will it be banned from certain areas and frequencies? Answer because it does cause interference. What will happen to your BPL when the truck driver keys his CB? Answer you could lose bandwith during his transmission. Why won't it ever work? Answer not enough useable bandwith where they are trying to implement it and high cost of implementation. My thought is this go get a FCC Freq allocation chart and look at what is in the 1.8-80mhz range and see how many of these heavily used services you don't need. HF spectrum is ideal for long range comunications and it is needed for many services like rural police who cannot afford to place repeaters all over their jurisdiction. Forestry Service for the same reason Military and public services like the Red Cross use HF for the same reason it works. Now comes along a bunch of well meaning morons who see it as a Broadband answer and no matter what the won't get it untill they are in a emergency situation and their only hope is HF radio but their own BPL interfers with the reception on the other end so no help comes should they get a lawyer and sue themselves for stupidity. Ham Radio is not a growing group but it is still a very important one, From the Boy Scout who helped save some of his fellow Scouts by having his portable radio with him, to the thousands who volinteer to work with public service and safty groups. We work in the background and have a vital effect on many lives each year but no one seems to care untill they need help. Many ham operators routinly monitor aircraft and shipping channells and have the equipment to make a connection when others do not maybe just to patch aphone call home from overseas to our service men and women, When you watch movies and see the person talking on a radio to a loved one at home odds are it is thru some outdated useless Ham radio equipment. Another interesting tidbit on HF is that it bounces or skips around the world under certain conditions this will have to be true of BPL as it radiates on these frequencies. So if your download affects a emergency transmission can you be sued for it because as a Ham we can be held responsible for what when and where our signals go and the harm they cause. Out where the house's are a little further apart HF radio is important in town where your vinyl rubs you neighbors brick VHF and UHF work better. Also note that all modes of transmission on HF are required to be narrow bandwidth to leave room for others to use it not ultra wide bandwidth internet. Our own rules dictate that we use the lowest power and narrowest bandwidth possible to avoid interference this to allow thousands to use the small amount of HF space available. Otherwise many would be running high speed modems thru huge amps and could take over entire sections of HF, this by the way would completely wipe out a BPL system. Well I have rambled on long enough good luck to all except BPL proponets.
James |
