W1RFI
join:2003-05-12
Burlington, CT
| reply to phattieg
Re: Looks like the promise of BPL.......
said by phattieg  :If the service had no interference in the ham band, I wouldn't be against it. This system didn't generate any reported interference in the Amateur bands. It was a Current Technologies (Generation 1) system. Current uses HomePlug modems on the 240-volt wiring to premises and 32-48 MHz on MV distribution lines. The reports ARRL received from Hawaii and from the lager Current systems in Ohio (50,000 homes passed) and Texas (building to 2,000,000 homes passed) show similar results for Amateur Radio.
HECO apparently made this decision on economics. I'm not sure why HECO's economics don't out while TXU is moving ahead, but that is apparently the case.
As amateur operators, we don't have a direct interest in the economics of BPL. Those hams who are also ratepayers in a particular system, or stockholders, do have a stake in the economic component to a BPL system, though.
Ed Hare, ARRL
W1RFI@arrl.org
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