[DX] ARRL BPL Video

[Chipn1ir@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/8/03 12:53:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, wy6k@yahoo.com 
writes:


> Chip,
> 
> You must be a dope.  The problem isn't 30 miles from the power lines. 
> We all live adjacent to power lines.  How does power get into your
> house?  Or do you power your rig with hot air?
> 
> Mike
> 

Hi Mike,

I confess that new knowledge is a daily acquisition for me, so I assume that 
is the nature of your comment, and that you do not mean this as a defamatory 
characterization..

I fear you may have bought into the fear but not the fact. There is no 
evidence that living near power lines will get hams off the air at HF under BPL. All 
I can see is evidence that driving very close and  under power lines, in the 
near field,  with a large, parallel antenna,causes a high noise level in some 
BPL service areas.

If hams can't make the case for bona fide intereference to their licensed 
service by BPL, then there is no question that few, if any, restrictions will be 
imposed against BPL.

Here are some thoughts on how to make the case, assuming there is a case to 
be made:

1) demonstrate in-shack BPL  RFI to an extant HF set up with an outdoor 
antenna, such as a dipole, Yagi, etc.
2) demonstrate that this occurs many times to many hams in many locations 
within the extant (limited) BPL networks.
3)demonstrate that BPL propagates to areas far outside the service area (such 
as many hundreds or thousands of miles away) and that this causes RFI to hams 
outside of the service area.
4) demonstrate--and this can be done by calculation based upon received noise 
levels--that BPL will impede emergency communications in HF far beyond the 
BPL service area.

These data would effectively kill BPL as presently configured.

If hams do not make such a case, or such a case can't be made, then the power 
companies will take their paid consultants and show that hams are being 
reactionary and not factual. It will also bring up the question of exactly why hams 
need all that HF spectrum anyway.

The alleged BPL problem is not solved by money, IMO. It is solved by a few 
simple cases of documented RFI, in real circumstances, which would seem to be 
virtually free to gather.

I know that some here will understand that these comments will be profoundly 
helpful if implemented.

73,
Chip N1IR








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