"George R. Gonzalez" wrote in
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Let's not fly totally off the handle here folks!

I'd like to have a clean radio environment too, but this power-line Rf
stuff
may not fly, or may not be a problem, for any one of many reasons:

#1: It's cheap, if you ignore the cost of fitting RF pasthru's to
every
pole transformer.

#2: Will people stick with a service that could very likely be slowed
down
or shut down by any noisy vacuum-cleaner motor in the neighborhood?

#3: Exactly how noisy is it, and is this added noise any worse than
your
typical urban background hash from HV corona, salty insulators,
Harley's,
corona-globes, shavers, light-duimmers, touch-lamps, flourescent tubs,
computer monitors, computer keyboards, christmas lights with flashers
and
dimmers, and whatnot?

Let's get the facts before we go toss mudballs at the FCC building.

Isn't this how some broadband services are distributed in the British
Isles, Finalnd and the Netherlands? How has it worked there? Keith
Willshaw reported that ham ops do not seem to have been adversely
affected. Are they using the same frequency régime?
--
Andrew Chaplin
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