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Just a heads-up, power line networking is a truly horrible idea
if you care anything about the radio spectrum.

this feeble attempt at a new way of delivering broadband tries to
use the power grid to distribute a very wide range of radio
frequencies.

Power lines were not meant for this kind of use and it is
impossible to protect both the broadband system and users of the
radio spectrum from clobbering each others systems with this
misuse of the utilities.

the amateur radio community, over six hundred thousand of us, and
many users of the radio spectrum as well as the federal emergency
management agency oppose this idiocy.

the only people who think its a good idea are a few companies
who want to get rich with an inappropriate technology, and the
good old FCC who can be so easily bought off.

Stay away from "BPL" broad band over power lines, it should have
died out yesterday.

Want to know more, check the ARRL (American Radio Relay League)
web site for lots of good technical work proving these points
http://www.arrl.org

look for "BPL"

sorry to diatribe here, but folks need to know.

73s tom Fowle WA6IVG



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