Keith,
Don't worry about the neighbors on this one. This could indeed become a
tacky situation. Since amateurs are supposed to used the minimum amount of
power for reliable communications, some coordination via the
internet/telephone may be in order. You pick a frequency with a lot of
interference from BPL. This means that both ends will have to use
substantial power. Where there is an egress, there also exists an ingress;
i.e., amateur transmissions will cause problems for BPL. At this point,
complaints may well be made. The amateur will also have to enter a
complaint. At this point, push is gonna come to shove. I suspect that some
government/public communications will also have a problem. Obviously, they
don't want to run much up into VHF or there would be a *ton* of problems,
but there will have to be a point that someone either says we need
reasonable coordination and protection - or - to heck with it, big money
gets everything. Notice how (at least in my newspaper today) they are
starting to talk about cutting social security? Not because it is going
broke; rather, because the feds are 'borrowing' these funds to keep the
deficite only rediculous rather than insane. The feds have to pay it back
(and they already want to welch on it). It is about time that we see in
print what the government *really* wants.
73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA
"Keith" wrote in message
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Broadband over Power Lines has been approved for a NPRM by the full 5
commissioners of the FCC. What this means for all short wave listeners
is that once BPL is deployed a SWL is not protected by any
interference caused by BPL transmissions. SWL's use part 15 devices and
most accept any interference.
If BPL interfered with local Radio or TV broadcast then the
licensee of those stations could complain, however I doubt
if any SWL in America will be able to get a international
broadcaster to complain to a utility company about BPL interference.
Basically this could lead to the death of shortwave listening and
ham radio is equally threatened.
Ham radio and CB operators will face irate neighbors
who have their BPL Internet connection interfered with by
transmissions. I can easily see enraged neighbors calling
their congress person complaining about the 'CBer' wiping
out all the Internet connections in their neighborhoods
and congress quickly passing a law placing the burden on
the Ham Radio and CB Operator not to interfere with Internet BPL.
The FCC has allowed the beginning of the end of HF operation
by allowing BPL to use HF frequencies.
IMHO
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