[Lowfer] New Ham band

[Mike Staines]

Tod wrote:

> Regrettably, the power company lobbying groups
> have done an about face and declared that such a band could cause
> 'homeland
> security' problems by hams interfering with PLC's. I suspect the real
> concern is that the power companies do not meet the FCC requirements for
> emmissions from the PLC's and by preventing any FCC allocated frequencies
> from being specified for a licensed service in that frequency
> range they can
> avoid being challenged for 'improper interference with a licensed
> service'.

Thanks, Tod.

Can't we get Walter Cronkite, Paul Kangas or some other media savvy ham
(Kevin Mitnick come to mind, too) to expose this story?? !! ?? It is a sad
day when my government won't let me do something legal because it will
interfere with illegal corporate activities.

OK, now that I am firmly on my soapbox... Couldn't a case be made that by
taking this position the Grid companies are EXPOSING their vulnerability to
terrorist attack? Would not it be in the national interest for them to move
their traffic off the PLCs and onto the fiber-optic cables they have
installed along their right-of-ways?

73,
Mike
wa1ptc