[R-390] The politics of BPL

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Well certainly there has been more vocal support for BPL from the party  
in office. The question is weather the other guys will take a stand  
that could be looked at as anti-technology and anit- small guy (rural  
user) at the same time. I suspect that the best we can hope for is  
simply a neutral stand.

As far as I can see given a neutral playing field we will do pretty  
well. If there are rules in place about interference *and* you can get  
them enforced that's a *lot* better than the picture we have now.

I'm not looking for an RFI cop on every corner, just an environment  
that encourages the BPL guy to take a complaint seriously. Everything  
that the BPL guys have done so far says that their approach to  
complaints will be a marketing solution (deny they exist) rather than a  
technical solution (fix the darn problem).

The FCC spent a very modest amount of money on Amateur Radio rules  
enforcement over the last five or ten years. However they spent it on  
some very high profile activities. The effect has been to clean up a  
bunch of significant issues without going nuts over it. Enforcement  
does not have to mean big government or rules that go on forever and  
ever. You do have to get the offenders attention though. Right now  
attention is the last thing BPL is giving to the interference issue.

This is important, but we may be wearing out our welcome on this .....

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ




On Jul 11, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Don and Diana Cunningham wrote:

> One question in this, does anyone know if both major candidates support
> BPL??  Maybe several thousand emails proporting to vote for candidate  
> X that
> doesn't support BPL (assuming X is a major candidate, hi hi) might not
> hurt??
> 73,
> Don, WB5HAK
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JamesMiller" <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] The politics of BPL
>
>
>> Yes, so the rural farmer or Appalachian backwoods kid can also  
>> experience
>> the joys of unwanted pop-up ads, spam, browser hijacks, trojans,  
>> worms,
>> adware and spyware with rapid response over his noise-producing BPL
>> connection, all thanks to Billy Gates and his buggy software, and the
> money
>> hungry telecom companies, at a subscription rate of probably  
>> $90/month.
>> Sounds like progress to me !
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Terry O'Laughlin" <terryo at wort-fm.terracom.net>
>> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:48 AM
>> Subject: [R-390] The politics of BPL
>>
>>
>>> My friends in regulatory politics tell me BPL is being sold as the  
>>> new
>> REA,
>>> Rural Electrification Authority.  Bring broadband to the country
>>> folk!  This is especially galling because I remember my years of  
>>> DXing
> in
>>> the country - hearing longwave stations from Europe deep in Midwest  
>>> US
>>> because the noise level was so low.  You think we have noise now,  
>>> wait
>>> until BPL crisscrosses the country on those long rural lines.  Talk
> about
>>> an antenna farm!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Terry O'
>>> WB9GVB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 08:40 AM 7/11/2004, you wrote:
>>>> There is a BPL conferenc in Orlando this month.  Interesting insight
> into
>>>> the mindset of BPL marketing:
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://www.iqpc.com/cgi-bin/templates/document.html? 
>> topic=233&event=4929&do
>> cument=41137
>>>
>>>
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