[HCRA] NewEgg.com already selling BPL equipment

[Mike DeChristopher]

Steve and the rest,
        Sometime last week, a guy from the electrical company stopped by in
regards to any interference.  My first reaction was, what did I interfere
with this time???  As it turned out, he had seen the antennas and stopped in
to make sure THEY weren't causing any interference with me.  Apparently, the
high noise floor on 28MHz wasn't just a faulty noise blanker, as it happens
I live between two gigantic RF pumping transformers that are pretty bad, I
guess.
        Anyway, I took the chance to ask him about broadband over power
lines, and he told me that in order to do that, the amount of work necessary
would be almost impossible.  There are so many lines with so much power -
and some with information - that the switch would take years.  He didn't
sound too energetic about having to go up there and do the splicing and
hacking himself.  I'm not sure what the installation of BPL entales (and I
hope to never find out), but the power company around here at least isn't
enthusiastic.

73' and Happy DX
Mike DeChristopher, KB1FWN
http://kb1fwn.home.comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Zemanek, KB1GHC <kb1ghc at arrl.net>
To: HCRA Reflector <HCRA at mailman.qth.net>; BSA Venture Crew 510 Yahoo! Group
<NE1C at yahoogroups.com>; <KD1XP_REPEATER_NEWS at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: [HCRA] NewEgg.com already selling BPL equipment


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> I was on NewEgg.com looking around, and i found THEY ARE ALREADY SELLING
> BPL EQUPITMENT, however these are advertised as "Ethernet bridges"
> probably something like the "wireless phone jacks" they sell. But i
> would guess you could use these as BPL modems.
>
>
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduct.asp?submit=list&catalog=294&DEPA=5&ord
er=price&sort=asc
>
> AHHH CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> 73' de Steve, KB1GHC
>
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