[Denver Ditdat]

The end of HF?

[Denver Ditdat]

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[jokar]

Bump.

[6SJ7]

Hmm. A ZOT would really mean something with a broadband connection over a power line!

[JoJo Gunn]

“They can’t even supply power. There are power outages everywhere,”....

Patton comes across as a lower than low used car salesman. He doesn't do us any favors.

[off-roader]

IMSO, Amateur Radio GHz 99.5% arcane hobby and %.5% beneficial to society. The whinings of the ARRL are self serving, ludicrous and narrow sighted. Technology available to non-hobbyists continues to advance, ever diminishing the benefits of Amateur Radio to society while at the same time, the Amateur Radio Community struggles radically to gain membership. In fact, the common track is to continually reduce aptitude requirements for licensing. A death spiral I see!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Why would this provide significantly more interference than electricity only power lines?

[elmer fudd]

I really don't see how this would be either cost effective or even workable. Coaxial cable works well because it has an outer shielding on the cable that keeps out external interference, but power lines lack that shielding. From the standpoint of offering broadband, it's not what gets out of your lines and bothers the amateur radio guys, it's what gets into your lines and corrupts your signal. Also in order to run an RF signal you need amplifiers spaced at regular intervals, the higher the frequency the more amplifiers, and who in the world is going to want to do the maintenance work on amps that are hooked up to primary power lines? They're not like transformers that you can just leave there for decades at a time.

[hoot2]

"The end of HF?"

"Get Smart; use this:"

[unixfox]

Great, I can see a new item on my electrical bill..

"Federal Broadband Equality Act Access Charge" (for the "poor" of course).

[Squantos]

Need your professional opinion over here Al !

[TechJunkYard]

FCC Chairman Michael Powell called amateur radio operators “an important resource” and expressed hope that the rules the FCC has created will protect them, but he said obstructing the deployment of BPL is not an option.

Unacceptable. I am flabbergasted by this man's total disregard of the public service we hams provide, all for a business plan.