[Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House

[rertman at ix.netcom.com]

One of the best things we can in defense of the HF spectrum (ham, military, commercial, etc.) 
is to operate our amateur HF transmitters at full legal power in the vicinity of active BPL
systems.  BPL uses adaptive signaling that changes data rate to accommodate changes in the
line quality, something like a V.92 modem that adjusts its data rate as phone line noise
levels change.  And we'll still be legal, IMHO.

Carey, filtering out broadband signals like BPL can be done with DSP, but it's not a cheap date.

73,

Dick

Carey Fisher - NCS wrote:
> 
> Lost Causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
> 
> Carey Fisher, K8VZ
> Chief Technical Officer
> New Communications Solutions, LLC
> website: www.ncsradio.com
> 
>    > -----Original Message-----
>    > From: kenwood-admin at mailman.qth.net
>    > [mailto:kenwood-admin at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Daniel Seagraves
>    > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:04 PM
>    > Cc: Kenwood List Server
>    > Subject: Re: [Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House
>    >
>    >
>    > 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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