[HCRA] RE: [VWS] Amateur Radio In The News

[Daniel Sullivan]

Thanks for the article I passed it on the NEwington and my other club 
mailing list in NE.

Thoughts:

1) I did not know radio waves traveled INSIDE wire at 800 MHz and 10GHz. In 
fact the resistance from the wire would be enough to completely eliminate 
any hope of propagating a signal more than a few feet, unless high power was 
used. Then they would interfere with our 10 GHz operations and Public Safety 
on 800 MHz.

1a) Then they decide to use similar technology to 802.11b. Why don't they 
run fiber to 802.11b sites to begin with?

2) I love how the BBC will make their BPL home unit a propagation detector. 
I wonder what action it would take with a 100w or 1.5kw signal nearby. 
(Probably freak out and blow up.)

3) 5-10 Megabits is nothing, wait til its under load and everyone is doing 
internet radio!

Dan S.
KO1D

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Pete Norloff" <pnorloff05 at toward.com>
Reply-To: VWS at mail.viennawireless.org
To: <vws at viennawireless.org>
Subject: [VWS] Amateur Radio In The News
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:58:51 -0500

Today Reuters reported briefly on a New Scientist article regarding ham
radio and BPL here:


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7308173
&src=rss/technologyNews

(The above link above may wrap around)

And here's a link to the original New Scientist article:

    http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18524827.000

73,
Pete