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Power companies enter broadband market (very interesting)
Cnet.com via The New York times on the Web ^
| October 16, 2005
| Ken Belson
Posted on 10/17/2005 10:11:58 AM PDT by rawhide
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posted on
10/17/2005 9:18:20 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
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To: green iguana
CW= "Continuous Wave" It usually means Morse code where an unmodulated carrier is switched on and off.
It takes very little bandwidth, the equipment is simple and fairly reliable but not high speed.
Did you see the "Independence Day" movie?
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posted on
10/18/2005 4:50:19 AM PDT
by
OldMagazine
(You can only do what you can do.)
To: Professional Engineer
Yeah, one of my employees is a Ham and is always complaining about this. At the same time, he lives out beyond the broadband services, so he is caught in a quandry...sorta mixed emotions, like watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Hummer.
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posted on
10/18/2005 5:26:04 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(9/11 - "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!")
To: Barney59
104
posted on
10/18/2005 5:58:29 AM PDT
by
jokar
(On line data base http://www.trackingthethreat.com/db/index.htm)
To: thecabal
Thanks for that link! I've listened to around a dozen of those samples. So far, a couple of them sounded similar, but I haven't really found a match yet. I'll keep digging...
To: LibertyGirl77
Does it sound almost like a digital morse code? Yes, it does! That's precisely what I thought it was at first. I initially assumed I had a HAM nearby that was keying the signal. After I started paying closer attention, it sounds too fast to be keyed manually, and it also sounds like there are start and stop bits framing the data.
I pick up something similar on my baby monitor and my VoIP phone.
So, your implant is on the blink too? (j/k) Actually, I'm happy to find somebody else who has been hearing this interference. I assume you're still in the D.C. burbs (per your homepage)? How often are you hearing it? I sometimes hear two or three bursts per day, but usually it's only one -- and sometimes I don't hear anything for days. I've been hearing at least one burst per week for around six months though.
I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.
As am I, but I'd really like to know what it is...
To: idkfa
Ham Radio Operators to the Rescue After Katrina
I listened to some streaming podcasts of one of the HAM groups operating during the storm's aftermath. It didn't seem to be a very effective means of gathering and relaying information. Obviously they were willing but their ability to gather information was very limited.
Bandwidth is precious and non-digital uses are going bye-bye. HAM will be shunted aside in favor of BPL. And the HAMs will adapt.
To: George W. Bush
Mr. President, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to participate in this thread. We are so very honored.
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posted on
10/21/2005 12:31:19 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
"It doesn't matter what pipe you use as long as you have a pipe into the house," said Kevin Brand, the vice president for product management at EarthLink, which plans to introduce a BPL service in the first half of 2006. I could see possibilities here for the gas companies, too, so long as all their pipe is metal. Use the pipes as waveguides.
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posted on
10/21/2005 12:44:57 AM PDT
by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
To: George W. Bush
Can ham use spread spectrum?
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posted on
10/21/2005 12:45:40 AM PDT
by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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