[Lowfer] * BPL *

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:15:11 +0000

Its a done deal -- the FCC is the puppet of any big biz (read political 
contributor)
that comes down the pike

>From: Steve Dove <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Lowfer] * BPL *
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:13:25 -0400
>
>Greetings, radio-heads,
>
>Well, I took this morning off and drove the hour-and-change up to Emmaus, 
>just outside
>Allentown PA.  Took with me a little short-wave portable, thinking that if 
>I drove around
>there enough I might come across some BPL noises.
>
>And I did.
>
>Just cruised down the main drag, and sure enough in the middle of town, 
>there it was.
>Didn't take any finding at all.  It takes the form (at least this variant 
>does) of irrythmic
>clicks, splatches and noise bursts, discernable between 3MHz and 18MHz, 
>'peaking'
>especially badly around 6MHz-ish..
>
>Is it bad?  Near the power lines (it was easy to trace which ones were 
>carrying it) and in
>the driveways of properties connected thereto it is bad.  How bad?  80, 40, 
>30 and 20
>meters would be a waste of space  -  as good as unusable.  Normal 
>noise-blankers have
>little or no effect, and I'd struggle to figure out how to get rid of it in 
>a dsp solution.  All but
>the strongest shortwave broadcasters were affected;  definitely a less than 
>satisfactory
>listening experience.  The ones which weren't affected were the near-in 
>single hop
>behemoths not targeting NA anyway, or the funda-extremist types who do but 
>pretend not
>to.  Anything worthy of the name DX would be scratched up or buried by the 
>BPL noise.
>
>As far as I could tell, the BPL had not been filtered to notch out any 
>spectral lumps;  it's
>like they didn't even care.
>
>Folks, this is serious shit.
>
>If you haven't thought what you're going to tell the FCC for their NOI, you 
>have until next
>Wednesday.
>
>         Happy days,
>
>                 Steve        W3EEE
>
>
>
>
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