| Where? Where are all the ham bashers now? they were in the other forum bashing pretty hard about hams wanting to kill it. where are they now? hrmmm seems they have nothing to bash?
As far as BPL goes it don't matter what freq they infringe on, it will hurt someone. they just need to clean it up.
As far as the post about the million dollar Motorola systems that will be junk when they partition the 700mhz band to public safety? well seeing how we are going through the re-banding issue right now, that is not a problem because Nextel has to buy up all of our million dollar crap as you so call it and replace it with new stuff for the re-banded freqs. The radios that they are being replaced with are all APCO25 ready and with a minor mod will work in the 700 bandand yes some stuff will not have to be replaced that can be tuned, so no, hams will not be chomping at the bit for this old stuff.
Not to mention that the FCC has changed the band plan and all radios will have to go to a 12.5khz bandwidth by 2016 if i remember right so at that point most of your "low band" radios will have to be replaced with newer equipment, and by that time, who knows, BPL might not even be a factor at that point.
I work in public safety comms and i don't see any agency that will be affected by this, they are either on the 150mhz range or trunked. i see lots of posts in here about people talking about their area and they are not even in Texas. this is about Texas, it is not to say when they get to your area they will be using the same version or type of equipment. |
