[Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House

[rertman at ix.netcom.com]

Yes, Bill, it is.  However, BPL is, theoretically, required to operate without causing
interference, and to accept any interference it encounters.  We, on the other hand,
can operate HF at whatever level accomplishes our intended communications and, even
at less than full legal power, BPL's data rate will degrade in the presence of our HF 
transmissions.  Therefore, we're not causing intentional interference.  If we need
to run full legal power to overcome QRM and QRN, we're not doing anything illegal,
immoral or fattening.  :)

73,

Dick

Bill Kuhn - MCSE wrote:
> 
> I would think that would be one of the worst things to do for the
> amateur radio service.
> 
> Intentionally creating interference?
> 
> Isn't one of the basic tenets for amateur Radio operation to operate
> with the lowest power required for communication given the operating
> conditions at that time?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rertman at ix.netcom.com [mailto:rertman at ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:06 PM
> To: Carey Fisher - NCS; KENWOOD User net
> Subject: Re: [Kenwood] BPL - Email the White House
> 
> 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
> 
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