Certainly. I cannot argue that. I was just joking about what would happen in the affected zone. That's why I emphazised "tongue in cheek".
I haved NOT been in favor of BPL either, power lines are too leaky, but seems it is something we will have to live with. It is a fat source of revenues for the power companies. Jose, CO2JA list email filter wrote: > <not_so_tongue_in_cheek> > > If I am 800 miles away, outside the local disaster and power outage > area, and could have provided assistance, but can't hear you through > my local BPL QRM, or have given up HF communications all together as > the newly required digital BPL busting technologies are too expensive > to play with, don't we all lose? > > </not_so_tongue_in_cheek> > > Erik KI4HMS/7 > > Jose A. Amador wrote: > > kd4e wrote: > > > > (text snipped) > > > >> As you noted, if we boost the power level of the transmission we > >> enhance the probability of overcoming the BPL QRM/QRN, but we do > >> so at the price of increased cost and added energy -- which may > >> be a precious commodity in an emergency deployment. We also risk > >> generating our own QRM/QRN to nearby Ham & non-Ham gear. > >> > >> What am I missing? > > > > <tongue_in_cheek> > > > > That if it is an EMERGENCY situation, don't worry, power lines will > > be down , and so, there will be no BPL QRM. > > > > </tongue_in_cheek> > > > >> -- > >> > >> Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E ... somewhere in FL URL: bibleseven (dot) > >> com > > > > 73 de Jose, CO2JA __________________________________________ XIII Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura 28/noviembre al 1/diciembre de 2006 Cujae, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.cujae.edu.cu/eventos/convencion Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
