From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Sat Mar  6 19:53:16 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:53:16 EST
Subject: [Paham] new mods.dk
Message-ID: <1cd.1b4aeef6.2d7b862c@aol.com>

From:=A0 =A0 mods@mods.dk
Reply-to:=A0 =A0 no_reply@noreplymods.dk
To:=A0 =A0 brey4321@aol.com

Dear newsletter recipient.

Welcome to the new mods.dk, we have developed a brand-new design and lots of=
=20
new functions.

First of all, mods.dk has now developed a brand-new design. The new design=20
has make mods.dk more brilliant than the old design and it is more user-frie=
ndly.

There are also many new functions in the new design. Here are some of the ne=
w=20
features;

* All articles can now be printed in a print-friendly page.
* The search function is now available the whole time, and you can search fo=
r=20
a specify model number or article number.
* Forum where users can write all the message that they want.

The forum is the biggest news. All comment that many users has written since=
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2001, are now moved into the forum. So if you will write comment about a=20
modification or other article, this now take place in the forum.

I hope you will enjoy the new design changes and improvement of mods.dk
Come and visit mods.dk on http://www.mods.dk.


Best regards
Erik Hansen
mods.dk


From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Mon Mar  8 13:52:03 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:52:03 EST
Subject: [Paham] BPL IN FLA?
Message-ID: <198.26a5699d.2d7dd483@aol.com>

Juno-based Florida Power & Light Co., which provides electric power to more 
than 4 million subscribers throughout the state, has been studying 
broadband-over-power line technology for more than a year, but still hasn't made a 
decision on applying it. 
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbbroadband07mar07,0,7783021.st
ory?coll=sfla-business-front
    
    



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From agray@voicenet.com  Mon Mar  8 23:17:04 2004
From: agray@voicenet.com (Alan Gray)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:17:04 -0500
Subject: [Paham] BPL IN FLA?
In-Reply-To: <198.26a5699d.2d7dd483@aol.com>
Message-ID: <DBEOJPLOHIJHCPHPMGLOCECMCKAA.agray@voicenet.com>

Here is the complete article for those having trouble accessing it:

de W3BV



http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/nationworld/sns-ap-power-line-internet,
1,5465341.story
Utility to Offer High-Speed Internet



By LISA CORNWELL
Associated Press Writer

March 3, 2004, 12:39 PM EST

CINCINNATI -- A division of utility Cinergy Corp. plans to offer high-speed
Internet service over its power lines, letting customers connect by simply
plugging a computer modem into existing electrical outlets.

The idea of broadband service over power lines, or BPL, has been around for
some time, but this appears to be the first large-scale rollout of the
technology by a major utility.

"There have been several utilities working on this quietly and doing pilot
programs," said Alan Shark, president of the Power Line Communications
Association, an industry trade group. "Everyone has been very cautious in
deploying this technology, but I think the demand will be incredible."

Cinergy Broadband LLC is teaming up with Current Communications Group LLC, a
Germantown, Md.-based technology company, to offer the service in sections
of Cincinnati this year. Plans call for an eventual expansion into Kentucky
and Indiana; Cinergy hopes to market the service to 55,000 of its 1.5
million customers this year.

A second venture will bring the technology to smaller municipal and
cooperatively owned power companies, covering 24 million customers across
the United States.

The parties are committing more than $70 million to the ventures.

"We had very positive results from a pilot program that we began last
January in about 100 homes and about 75 percent said they were very
satisfied and willing to sign up for commercial service," said Cinergy
spokesman Steve Brash.

Tim Barhorst, 51, of Cincinnati, was in the test program and is sold on the
service.

"I have a home office and I have used DSL and cable, but I would choose BPL
over them," said Barhorst, a technology consultant. He said the speed is
comparable to the high-speed cable services and faster than DSL. "It has
been very reliable and is the most cost-efficient for me."

Cinergy and Current Communications believe that the new technology offers
several advantages over DSL and cable modem service, including the fact that
no professional installation or additional wiring in a home is needed.

The service will be provided at three pricing levels, from 1 megabit per
second for $29.95 a month to 3 megabits per second for $39.95 a month.

Customers will get one free modem, which must be plugged into an electrical
socket for the system to work. Additional modems for multiple outlets will
cost $30 to $40 each.

One major broadband rival, Time Warner Cable, claimed not to fear the
competition. Spokesman Keith Cocozza said his company could offer better
value by bundling several services together, such as Internet access with
cable TV and phone service.

The Federal Communications Commission has said it will begin developing
rules for the technology as another way to provide broadband access to
consumers. FCC Chairman Michael Powell said last year that because every
building has a power plug, it "could simply blow the doors off the provision
of broadband."

However, BPL has its critics, including the American Radio Relay League, a
national association of amateur radio operators. The group contends that
power line data transmissions will interference with radio tuned to the same
frequency.

David Sumner, the league's chief executive, said that can cause problems for
not only ham radio operators, but also short-wave broadcasts and military,
public safety and government communications.

Cinergy's Brash, however, said interference has not been a problem.

In general, here's how the technology works. Data travels on medium-voltage
wires in the power grid, getting transferred to fiber-optic or telephone
lines to skip disruptive high-voltage wires.

Because signals can only make it so far before breaking apart, electronic
devices on the power line reamplify packets of data. More elaborate
techniques detour the signals around transformers before the data gets
zipped into homes via the regular electric current.

Matt Davis, director of broadband services for the Yankee Group, a
Boston-based research firm, is concerned that BPL technology has not
developed sufficiently to be competitive and drive costs down. He also
thinks it will struggle to compete with the bundled packages offered by
cable and phone companies.

"I don't want to shoot it down, but there are some key things that are
stacked against them," he said.

Karen George, research director for Primen, a Boulder, Colo.-based research
company that tracks the retail energy market, says utilities have emphasized
that providing Internet service will be important in underserved rural and
suburban markets.

"The question is whether utilities will be able to make money off of it,"
she said.

* __

On the Net:

http://www.cinergy.com
Copyright C 2004, The Associated Press

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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:52 AM
To: 60Meters_EmCom@yahoogroups.com; BPLandHamRadio@yahoogroups.com;
paham@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Paham] BPL IN FLA?


Juno-based Florida Power & Light Co., which provides electric power to more
than 4 million subscribers throughout the state, has been studying
broadband-over-power line technology for more than a year, but still hasn't
made a
decision on applying it.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbbroadband07mar07,0,7783021.
st
ory?coll=sfla-business-front





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From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Thu Mar 18 17:20:49 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:20:49 EST
Subject: [Paham] more on bpl
Message-ID: <a9.52fb47ad.2d8b3471@aol.com>

This conducted energy can cause harmful interference to radio communications 
by two possible paths. First, the RF energy may be carried through electrical 
wiring to other devices also connected to the electrical wiring. Second, at 
frequencies below 30 MHZ, where wavelengths exceed 10 meters, long stretches of 
electrical wiring can act as an antenna, permitting the RF energy to be 
radiated over the airwaves. Due to low propagation loss at these frequencies, such 
radiated energy can cause interference to other services at considerable 
distances.
http://www.eei.org/magazine/editorial_content/nonav_stories/2004-03-
01-Broadband.htm


    

From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Thu Mar 18 17:25:50 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:25:50 EST
Subject: [Paham] Let ur voice be heard on BPL--it's easy!
Message-ID: <1e4.1b8e0c87.2d8b359e@aol.com>

PLEASE take a few moments to file a comment on this NPRM which poses the=20
greatest possible threat to the future of HF communications as we know it.

You may file a comment by going to the following URL:=A0=20
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/ecfs/Upload/<about:blank>

Check the item labeled "Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) - Docket 03-104" and=
=20
click on "Continue".
This will take you to a form where you can enter your name & comment.

Bob
WB3DYE


From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Mon Mar 22 02:25:04 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:25:04 EST
Subject: [Paham] Seeking information/contacts with RACES/ARES
Message-ID: <1a2.21d54ff0.2d8fa880@aol.com>

Seeking information/contacts with RACES/ARES amateur radio groups supporting=
=20
local public safety either in EOC activations, field exercises, or field=20
communications - or those in 9-1-1 dispatch/emergency management who have=20
worked=20
with them.=A0=A0 Please contact me off list if you can lend some expertise t=
o my=20
research.=A0 editor911@aol.com   =20


thanks!

Randall Larson
Editor, 9-1-1 Magazine
P O Box 23069
San Jose CA 95153-3069
408-227-8027
www.9-1-1magazine.com



From w3sj@tampabay.rr.com  Tue Mar 23 13:04:20 2004
From: w3sj@tampabay.rr.com (Dave Haney)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:04:20 -0500
Subject: [Paham] Articles needed for April PocoNoise
Message-ID: <00f601c410d7$5bb5a320$08011c18@soundxm4c7fzc6>

To all:

It is only two days until the deadline for submissions, and so far very  few
articles have been received. Please send them NOW !!

Tnx es 73
W3SJ




From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Tue Mar 30 13:35:16 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:35:16 EST
Subject: [Paham] CQ Magazine Response to WSJ BPL
Message-ID: <118.30d58da1.2d9ad194@aol.com>

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Fwd: [APCO-HAM] CQ Magazine Response to WSJ BPL March 23 Article
March 25, 2004
To the editor:
As a journalist and an amateur radio operator (I am the editor of CQ Amateur
Radio, the world's largest independent amateur radio magazine), I was
distressed at the number of significant inaccuracies in Ken Brown's March 23
article, "In This Power Play, High-Wire Act Riles Ham-Radio Fans":=20

#1) "The nation's vocal but shrinking population of ham-radio operators"
isn't shrinking. The number of licensed hams in the United States is near
its all-time high (it peaked last summer at more than 685,000 and is
currently around 684,000, according to FCC statistics. In contrast, there
were 673,000 licensed hams at this time five years ago; in 1980, there were
about 382,000. Far from shrinking, amateur radio in the United States is
growing and has nearly doubled its ranks in the past 25 years.). The
American Radio Relay League's membership may have fallen sharply in the past
decade, but that has more to do with how the organization is perceived by
many hams than with the number or licensed or even active hams.

#2) While "a clash between the dots and dashes of the telegraph and the bits
and bytes of the Web" makes for nice copy, it doesn't paint a very accurate
picture. While Morse code certainly continues to be popular among hams=20
it
gets through in marginal conditions when virtually nothing else will, and
you need only your brain to decode it, not a computer=A0 hams primarily
communicate using voice, digital modes (we invented wireless e-mail networks
in the 1980s) and yes, even the internet to connect with other hams around
the world. I am currently reviewing a device that generates and decodes
digital voice signals that are sent through standard analog transmitters and
receivers.=20

#3) "Not too many decades ago, ham-radio operators were on the cutting edge
of communications technology ... They spread word of disasters that
otherwise might have taken days to reach the public." No, not too many
decades ago at all=A0 in fact, the correct number of decades is zero. There=20=
is
a permanent ham station at the National Hurricane Center that's staffed
whenever a hurricane is near land. Why? Because when power lines and
telephone lines go down in a storm, ham radio is STILL the only means of
communication that reliably gets through in those critical early hours. When
the attacks of 9/11 destroyed New York City's ultra-high-tech Office of
Emergency Management, officials relied on ham radio during those critical
early hours to relay vital communications between agencies. One FCC official
has correctly described amateur radio as America's "fail-safe communications
system."=20

#4) As for suggestions that we are losing our edge in technology, how many
other hobbyist groups have their own fleet of communications satellites ...
that they've built themselves? Hams around the world have built and launched
about 60 satellites since 1961, when we launched the first non-government
satellite ever placed into orbit. Hams today are extending the distance
limits of high-microwave frequencies, the next "frontier" for wireless
communications; and experimenting with laser communications. Today's "hot
ticket" technologies such as wide-area wireless computer networking; and
text-messaging and still-picture transmissions via cell-phones, were
pioneered by hams.

#5) "To become a fully-licensed ham operator, people still need to learn
Morse code..." ... not since 1991, when the code requirement was dropped for
the Technician class license, which gives full privileges in the VHF and UHF
amateur allocations. Hams with Technician licenses are "fully-licensed."
Other license classes with additional privileges continue to require a code
exam, but at only 5 words per minute, and that only because it was required
by international rules until last summer. The FCC is currently considering
more than a dozen petitions to bring US rules into line with the new
international regulations.

#6) "Aging hams ... are dying." Yup, along with aging non-hams. Not much we
can do about that, except to note that hams and non-hams alike are living
longer today so they're not dying quite as soon as they might have a couple
of decades ago. "Fewer youngsters are replacing them." This is hard to
quantify since new privacy rules no longer allow the FCC to collect and
release birth dates of licensees. But there are two factors at play here
that skew the average age figures: a) there are fewer youngsters, period.
The baby boom created a huge population bubble that is working its way into
its 60s, and the average age for any activity that includes baby boomers is
inexorably rising; b) many of those boomers are becoming hams for the first
time in their 50s and 60s, pushing up the average age. With today's advances
in health care, these new hams often have 20-30 years in which they can be
active, contributing members of the ham radio community. And since many of
them are retired, they have the time to give to staffing emergency operating
centers, etc., and providing vital communications in disasters. These
older-newer hams are assets, not liabilities.

# 7) Hams "haunt a series of short-wave radio frequencies set aside for them
by the federal government in the 1930s." While some frequency bands were
assigned to amateurs (internationally) in the 1930s, we have seen a steady
growth in those allocations in more recent decades. Three new allocations
were made in the 1980s and one was made just last year. The picture Mr.
Brown paints of hams as ghosts of communications past ("haunting"
frequencies since the '30s, for example), is just plain inaccurate.

#8) "One favorite game: trying to contact someone in each of the 3,000-plus
counties in the U.S." As sponsors of the primary award for contacting all
3,077 U.S. counties, we are proud that it's a favorite activity. But it's
much more than a game. Since many remote counties don't have many resident
hams, "county-hunters" often put them on the air by driving there and
operating from their cars. This gives hams around the world experience in
communicating with stations whose signals might be weak=A0 signals Broadband
over Power Lines would likely wipe out; and it gives the hams who drive to
those counties a knowledge of places from which they can operate and get
signals out essential knowledge in an emergency or disaster. Better to take
the hours you might need to find those locations while pursuing the hobby
aspect of amateur radio than to waste time searching for a spot in an
emergency when every minute counts.=20

#9) Mr. Brown poses a question asked by FCC Chief Engineer Ed Thomas, "Why
is this thing a major calamity?" but he doesn't try to get an answer. Here's
the answer: One of the many things hams have discovered over the years about
the short-wave frequencies where BPL wants to operate is that you don't need
a lot of power to communicate over very great distances. Under the right
conditions, a few milliwatts might get you a contact thousands of miles
away. BPL signals are essentially low-power radio transmissions. Under those
same conditions, they may bounce off the ionosphere like any other radio
signal and come back down hundreds or thousands of miles away. Rather than
enhancing communication, though, they will block it. Hams tuning around the
short-wave frequencies searching for a weak signal from some remote corner
of the globe won't be able to hear it=A0 and they also won't be able to hear
the weak distress signal from a boat in the middle of the ocean somewhere
that's in danger of sinking, something that happens at least once or twice a
year.=20

#10) Hams are not the only ones threatened by BPL interference. Every other
user of spectrum between 2 MHz and 80 MHz is at risk. This includes
international short-wave broadcasters, the US military, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, long-distance airline pilots, Citizens Band
(CB), some radio-control airplanes and boats, some baby monitors and
cordless phones, and some police and fire departments. The FCC and BPL
industry say they'll avoid using certain frequencies where interference
occurs, but with so many spectrum users, and the possibility of interference
occurring hundreds or thousands of miles from the signals' source, this
"notching" technique will soon result in "all hole and no doughnut." It just
won't work. Someone inevitably will suffer interference. And once BPL is
widely deployed, it will be virtually impossible to un-deploy.

Perhaps a better question for Mr. Brown to be asking than "Why is this thing
a major calamity?" is "Why is BPL so important to the FCC?" It is FCC policy
not to promote any one particular technology, yet from Chairman Powell on
down to the staff level, this policy is being violated with regularity as
the FCC has become cheerleaders for a technology with potential for massive
interference to a host of long-distance radio services and whose economic
potential is unproven at best. Why is BPL so important to the FCC? It's a
question that may well be worth the curiosity of the Journal's excellent
investigative staff.=20

Thank you for the opportunity to correct the inaccuracies in Mr. Brown's
article.

Sincerely,

Richard Moseson
Editor, CQ Amateur Radio magazine


25 Newbridge Rd.
Hicksville, NY 11801
516-681-2922
w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com=20






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From WORKSNTV@aol.com  Wed Mar 31 13:48:51 2004
From: WORKSNTV@aol.com (WORKSNTV@aol.com)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:48:51 EST
Subject: [Paham] free equipment=from another list
Message-ID: <ce.4990acfd.2d9c2643@aol.com>

The following I recieved from another list--If interested please reply to th=
e=20
sender--not me.
73'

Bob
WB3DYE


Greetings,



Pardon me for barging in again; I am sending this to a few folks that
expressed interest some months ago in equipment I have in storage near
Lehighton, Pennsylvania.=A0 The property (and my storage space) has been sol=
d
and my sister wants my stuff out of there pronto.



Of particular interest may be a large log-periodic array built for the U.S.
Govt. by Hy-Gain for continuous tuning 6.5-30 MHz.=A0 It's new in several
large boxes and requires nearly 2 acres for set-up.=A0 Some information is
available at http://www.antenna.it/military/lp%20630-w-10...2.htm



Numerous other pieces are also available, including several mil surplus
test/signal generators.=A0 The attached photo shows some of this equipment:
the antenna system is mostly contained in the long aluminum boxes and the
large wooden crate.



This is a give-away...everything is free.=A0 What is not picked up by Sunday=
,
April 4, will probably go to the dump.=A0 Call me in California, 408-202-657=
1,
with questions or e-mail me at drexsprint@earthlink.net for some additional
photos.=A0 If you are not interested, but are aware of others/reflectors who
might be, please pass this on.



Best regards,



Dennis Rex

Ex-WA3HYY

