On Jun 20, 2:43 pm, Michael Coslo wrote:


My assessment of the situation is that the efforts - especially the
ones by W1RFI, have paid off.




I agree to the point that the science and technical work done by Ed
Hare was members money well spent. We (ARRL) should have spent more
money in this area, the practical technical evaluation of the BPL.
This was/is useful work.

But I stand on both sides of this issue, as a licensed Amateur, a
former elected ARRL official, and as a technically involved member the
telecommunications industry.

From the aspect of a former elected ARRL official and a long-time
loyal ARRL member, I view all the "whipping up the troops", long
jeremiads in QST, nasty letters to the FCC Chair, Federal lawsuits,
etc., as ill-advised posturing which has no practical influence on the
business decisions of telecommunications providers, and only serves to
alienate our regulators over a technology which is ALREADY DOA.

From the aspect of a player in the telecommunications industry, I see
K1ZZ and the BoD which supports his Quixotic crusade as comically
amateur (in the Webster definition of "without skill") medlers in a
game where they have only enough political power to be nothing more
than a pest. This misbegotten adventure WILL be remembered in the
wrong places when we need some favor down the road.

All of this, over a still-born technology without any practical
possibility of gaining the traction necessary to become a market
reality.

73, de Hans, K0HB