FW: [Kenwood] BPL

[Brian Carling]

BPL is NOT the greatest threat to HF radio for hams 
at present. WINLINK is a far greater threat, and ARRL is 
endorsing it.

Wait until one of these unattended high power digital 
pests starts interfering with your QSO and you will understand.

On 15 Oct 2004 at 2:30, Daniel Seagraves wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Mort Arditti wrote:
> 
> > Here is a thought. Use maximum legal CW power,  use a directional
> > antenna and aim at the power lines. If the lines are close, it is better.
> > Will this  cause interference to BPL? I don't know.
> > If the BPL supporters do not care about us, why should we care about
> > them. Besides, it could be fun.
> 
> We can't cause deliberate interference. If the FCC finds out, you'll lose
> your ticket, and you can bet the BPL users will gripe about you whether
> you interfere with them or not.
> 
> The only way we're going to continue to use HF as we do now is to come up
> with some whiz-bang error correction that can get a signal through S9+30
> of noise. The war is over, we lost, we have to deal with this. We can't
> just keep doing what we've always done and expect things to never change.
> It's just like the restrictions and changes made to pilots after 9-11.
> They have had to put up with major changes - They used to be able to
> cruize around and just look at the scenery without a "reason" to fly. They
> used to be able to invite kids up to the flight deck if they wanted to.
> Times have changed, and the past is gone forever. It doesn't matter if the
> change is for the better or not, we have to deal with it... or die.
> 
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