"The Eternal Squire" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am not sure who would want to answer this, but I have a question about
homebrewing. I had been doing it for about a year until I had heard
about how BPL was going to completely obliterate all possibility of weak
signal work.

I had therefore stopped my hobby since the start of this year and
started reading the ARRL articles re BPL's progress through the FCC.

In your regular QRP work, have you or others began experiencing massive
interference from BPL? Are there still HF bands which will still remain
worthwhile to use, if so, which ones?


BPL hasn't happened yet on any type of widespread basis. So far there's
really only been a few pilot programs in limited areas. I wouldn't put the
brakes on your QRP work just yet.

In addition, no matter what the marketing hype is, there is a good chance
that in many areas it simply won't be economically feasible or that it won't
be able to effectively compete against DSL and cable access. Since BPL will
be carried over unshielded lines, it will be subject to dropouts from all
kinds of interference thus vastly slowing its effective speed, quite
possibly below what is available with a simple phone line and dialup
service.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE