Everyone,
should click on these links and watch these videos from the BPL in
Europe. Forward them to our friend in Washington, Miss Kathleen Abernathy.
john
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hengemuehle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "n3drk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Low Power Amateur
Radio Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!
> Hello John and others,
>
> regarding the current BPL discussions you might well be interested to
> visit
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/
>
> where whp067 (meaning "White Paper" no 67) has just appeared
> providing a hell lot of the infos regarding the impacts BPL (or PLT
> or PLC as it is called in Europe) does have on HF reception in a
> typcal suburban or downtown area. The above web site also provides a
> bulk of audio files taken within such an area where BPL was / is in
> use. While the experiments were made using HF broadcast band
> reception (with those really big signals there...) it is all to easy
> and obvious what that would mean for any ham band reception ( you can
> bet it's gonna be damn worse...)
>
> Also, I put some files (both audio and video ones) on my web site at
>
> http://www.qsl.net/dl5qe
>
> regarding BPL (PLC, PLT) interferences.
>
> It should be well alarming everybody if an international and well
> known broadcaster like the British BBC sees the necessity to address
> a broader public to inform about the detrimental interferences that
> (might?!) be our possible future as HF users. If the "Megawatt Boys"
> are afraid enough (like BBC), we as hams should be much more afraid
> anyhow...
>
> 73 de Martin, DL5QE
>
>
> On 25 Sep 2003 at 15:39, n3drk wrote:
>
> From: "n3drk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!
> Date sent: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:39:50 -0400
>
> > Attention All Amateurs...
> > ARRL Rebukes FCC Commissioner's BPL-Related "Broadband Nirvana"
> > Remarks
> > (Sep 25, 2003) -- The ARRL has strongly objected to FCC Commissioner
> > Kathleen Q. Abernathy's suggestion that Broadband over Power Line
> > (BPL) technology will contribute to what she described as "broadband
> > Nirvana." Addressing the United Powerline Council's annual conference
> > September 22 in Arlington, Virginia, Abernathy expressed unabashed
> > enthusiasm for BPL and recommended a combination of regulatory
> > restraint and the elimination or substantial modification of existing
> > rules as steps along the "path to Enlightenment." In a terse response
> > faxed today on behalf of the League's 155,000 members, ARRL Chief
> > Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, asserted that Abernathy
> > overlooked some significant issues in her Nirvana analogy.
> >
> >
> > YOU CAN EMAIL MISS ABERNATHY AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS AND I URGE
> > EVERYONE TO DO SO.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> >
> > john
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Sent by Martin Hengemuehle
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.muenster.de/~dl5qe
> http://www.qsl.net/dl5qe
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