I have a friend who lived in a condo, end unit, with a very nasty home-owners
association. They were not aware that he was a ham. No antennas of any kind
were allowed, not even those mobile on-glass units which some apartment
dwellers use to get around the rules. They even tried to give him a hard time
about the 18" wip on the trunk of his work vehicle(a 1998 crown vic sedan). He
eventually put antennas in his attic and ran his HF gear for the several years
that he lived there. The interference to his immediate neighbors was more
serious than those further away, but they had no idea where it was comming from
and eventually the complex was forced to get the place wired for cable. Shortly
after that, he changed jobs and move out. My point is that even if you don't
put up a tower, or external antennas, the interference to bpl from HF radios
still exists and the increased ham activity on these freqs is sure to stunt the
growth of bpl. CRAIG
-- Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO it won't die. There's too much political crap hanging off it.
I bet the City of Manasas doesn't know what the heck it does or why it's
bad for us. I bet if a Manasas ham was to file for a tower permit it
would get denied on the basis that it would interfere with the crap
workings of the BPL system (it is a 2 way argument after all).
Why don't they just invest in a CMTS and run some coax around the poles?
Heck, for 600 subscribers I'll do it!!
Mark
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 07:15 -0800, Curt Phillips W4CP wrote:
> I'm there.
>
> Except my 75 foot tower (80 foot actually) is in pieces on the
> ground. :-) I haven't had time for an erection yet. (Ham radio
> tower joke. :-)
>
> And all need to run 2KW amps on the digital modes too, on every legal
> ham frequency known to cause them problems. I don't have an amp yet.
>
> Just when you think the technology is dead, they draaaag it back in.
>
> 73,
> Curt W4CP
>
> Curt Phillips, CEM CMVP
> W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI
> ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA; OOTC; ODXA
> Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group
> Scanner/SWL Net- Mondays, 9PM, 146.64 repeater
> Raleigh, NC USA
> www.w4cp.com
> w4cp<at>arrl.net
> --
> Using powerlines to distribute high-speed Internet makes as much sense
> as using cable TV coax to distribute high voltage electrical power.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Swlfest] BPL- New Life or "Stick A Fork In It"
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 5:48 PM
>
> We should all go and get Extra Class ham licenses, put up 75ft
> towers and run a lot of digital modes and AM so that the bpl
> is unuseable.
>
>
>
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