[Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:17:42 -0500

What ever happened to the UHF or SHF system of BPL?  I understand that it did not cause any interference.  All of a sudden we do not hear about the system any more.

Bob, AF2HD

At 12:03 PM 4/28/2004 -0500, Daniel Seagraves wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, S. Markowski Jr. wrote:
>
>> "OVER?  Did he say OVER? Nothing's over until we decide it is.........
>
>Well, if the FCC already authorized it, the legislative fight is over.
>
>I am not saying we should just give up on HF - Quite the contrary. We just
>need to start working on ways to use the affected spectrum despite the
>interference. The interference will be man-made, which means it cannot be
>truly random, and if it can be identified as a pattern it can be filtered
>out. We're supposed to have as reputation for being innovators and
>technicians - Now we have to depend on this to continue as we do.
>Originally everyone said shortwave was useless. Hams proved this wrong and
>paved the way for modern communications. Now everyoen says shortwave is
>useless because the interference from BPL will wipe it out. BPL is coming
>and there's nothing we can realistically do about it. The dollars just
>don't add up. The only way to feasably continue is to look for ways to
>overcome the interference and make the "impossible" possible again. Even
>if we stop it in the USA, I'm sure some other country is going to pick it
>up, and given the global propagation of HF signals it only takes one to
>wipe out a band for an entire hemisphere.
>
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