[Lowfer] Broadband over Power Line (BPL); Filing Comments to FCC

[Peter Barick]

John on responding to Tim's petitioning of the FCC on the BPL issue:
>>> longwave@mindspring.com 06/02/03 11:12PM >>>
"
Tim,
BPL ... is not a threat to LF.
...
appears to represent a ... misunderstanding of the FCC's position
regarding the difference between BPL and PLCs.
"

Yes, I also took note of making the parallel argument against BPL and
linking it to the 137kHz ruling:
  1) as John says, they BPL is not feasible at LF
  2) it may appear by the Comm. as sour grapes leaking into the
argument. 

"
But BPL is not well suited for low frequencies, and the utilities are
not
going to let BPL down where it would interfere with their tinker-toy
PLC
systems either.  We only have the one big foe to contend with at LF,
thankfully, not two.  I think BPL ought to be opposed vigorously on its
own
(de-) merits.  I suspect it would muddy the case to bring largely
unrelated
topics such as LF into it.

73
John
"
Peter