[Boatanchors] Re:BPL Comments to the FCC

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 09:50 PM 06/16/2004, WA1KBQ at aol.com wrote:
>Most everyone currently active in Amateur Radio is concerned about what BPL
>will do to the Amateur radio service in general and certainly to the 
>enjoyment
>of our hobby. I might be wrong but isn't it possible BPL is an interim
>technology and will never really get off the ground? The truth is what 
>everyone
>really wants is a wireless internet connection and when we get that BPL 
>most likely
>won't have a chance. I have heard various providers are working overtime to
>develop the technology that would make it happen. Does anyone in the industry
>know how close we are to a wireless internet now? When this becomes a reality
>why would anyone want BPL?

Even if consumers end up not wanting BPL,  the electric utilities are still 
looking at
it for the purpose of telemetering each individual customer's meter 
readings back
to the billing department, this eliminating the venerable "meter readers."

They have tried to do this over the years, but previous attempts using 
"carrier current"
(BPL is just a modern version of it)  on distribution lines did not work.

Let's hope it still is not worth their effort....

Perry    w8au     (FirstEnergyCorp, ret)