[InHam] Cinergy threatens to start BPL in Ohio and Indiana soon.

[Michael Carrick]

  Hello INHam Mailing list:

I thought I would forward the URL beleow, which is a link to a qrz.com 
article I sent to the my local Ham community here in Harrison County, 
IN. The article is a copy of a press release from Cinergy, a  large 
elctrical service  provider in Indiana & Ohio regarding the pending roll 
out of BPL in the Cincinnati,OH Ohio area and their plans to move it in 
to Northern Ohio and Indiana.  For folks living in the Cinergy 
electrical service area. it would appear that we may be under the gun 
sooner than we thought regarding the BPL threat.

 I would think it would be wise for those in the Cinergy service area to 
contact Cinergy and express concerns about the very real potential for 
severe interference to the amateur radio bands and  the entire short 
wave radio spectrum.  There are a number of Rural Electrical 
Cooperatives in Indiana also (we have one in the Corydon area) and they 
might be a target , according to the article. Our local Co-OP..that I 
receive my electrical service rom also has an internet service provider 
partner, so I would have to assume  they may well be targeted.  Pretty 
scary to think about.

For the folks that work on legislation in the Indiana legislature, is 
there anything we can do in Indiana to try and slow the process of BPL. 
coming to our state, perhaps by mandating some sort of state regulation 
of BPL Internet services..re: requiring the electrical service providers 
to monitor and correct any interference..or is that entirely an FCC 
level matter? 

For those who may not be familiar with the threat to amateur radio posed 
by BPL, go the www.arrl.org and there is a link for detailed information 
on the BPL threat and what the ARRl has done to fight it.

73 de K9MTC (formerly KB0LIL)
           Michael Carrick, New Salisbury, IN    

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