W1RFI
join:2003-05-12
Burlington, CT | reply to fyi101
Re: the only interference to BPL are the hamsters > UPLC and the BPL companies want to work with them... but
> they won`t cooperate.... that`s why ... U.S is lagging
> behind other countries in the broadband arena !!!
I'm afraid you have this one exactly backwards. The industry is doing its best to portray ARRL as non-cooperative, but I would think that there is enough evidence to the contrary to convince you.
Just a few highlights:
o The IEEE EMC Society ran a BPL track at its last event. A number of BPL companies were invited to speak. They accepted, but en masse, several weeks before the event, they all cancelled.
o ARRL has an ongoing dialogue with Current Technologies, IBEC, Motorola, DS2 and Mitsubishi. That dialogue has been productive, for the most part, with one of the vendors -- Motorola -- installing one of their BPL systems at ARRL HQ in Newington, CT for testing.
o Others, such as Amperion, Main.net and Ambient have not maintained any substantive cooperative dialogue in at least a year now.
Those systems that are able to address interference are more than willing to work with radiocommunications users to do so. Those that are not work through their organizations to claim that groups like ARRL are not playing fair.
Ed Hare, W1RFI
ARRL Lab |
