Canadian BPL → Re: Gimme Speed Over The Power Lines!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe I just sat here and read all these !!
I am not a HAM or even live up there but I just keep wondering what's going to Happen with the Cat that got let out of the bag in two different ways.
1) The Fogal Transistor, I would assume it's getting hidden deep inside any of the New systems that are starting to work at Multi-GigaHertz speeds. But it should lend itself to Powerline commuinactions also.
2) I watched, more then once, a quick little blurb on TV (either the Discovery Channel or TLC) about (With Video coverage of the LIVE Demo) FASTER then LIGHT SPEED communication thru solids. It was a German University or Company but they were having a HARD time getting people to believe them EVEN WITH BEING ABLE TO REPEATEDLY DEMONSTRATE IT !
SOOO ! I would guess that Power Line communications will be here sooner or later and without interference to Other Technologies.
JUST A THOUGHT !!!

You've been watching too much science fiction.

I agree. Just got done watching T3 for the 5th time.

said by SR_BMET:

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I would guess that Power Line communications will be here sooner or later and without interference to Other Technologies.

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Well, a new transistor isn't needed to make BPL interference free. The system from Corridor that uses 5 Ghz surface wave would not interfere with shortwave/HF radio spectrum. And realize there's plenty of conventional semiconductor devices today that work into the mult-gigabit/hertz ranges.

Putting gigabit communications on a power line is like building an F-16 on a Yugo chassis. By the time you get done enhancing and extending the Yugo chassis, you might as well have built an F-16 from scratch. FTTH can deliver more bandwidth to the home than will be needed in the next century -- it's the interference free "future proof" solution.

To rf_engineer and all, here is a link to Fogal's work.
There used to be additional information on some of the very interesting results from work he and people with him were able to obtain but I need to Re-Find that information.
»www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/fo ··· _device/
One of the descriptions of tests they did was of putting Video within a 5vdc line but using a signal that would not be detectable with your normal O'scope (1mv) and another where they showed extracting large amounts of additional data that was already available within a regular recorded video (VCR) tape.
This I found very interesting from the point of view of medical work.
Just some thoughts out loud but I would hope Fogal does get some Credit down the road for his work.
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