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

[Brian Murrey]

Michael,

How hard would it be to get some hams activated in the afflicted areas
and have them go mobile with audio recordings, digital cams for
pictures, and some creen shots off a calibrated spectrum analyzer would
be awesome.

We're going to need a lot of hard physical evidence if we are to have
half a chance at stopping this.

I wonder how bad the military installations in the area will be
affected?

73 de KB9BVN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Carrick" <mcarrick@thepoint.net>
To: "InHam" <InHam@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: [InHam] Cinergy threatens to start BPL in Ohio and Indiana
soon.


>   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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>
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