- 1. [RFI] InfoWorld (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:28:44 -0000
- Folks, There has been substantial thread on towertalk concerning the InfoWorld. As a result, I approached the magazine's editor in chief, and have had a response from the reporter, who wants to spend
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-01/msg00030.html (9,956 bytes)
- 2. [RFI] Honda Accord EMC? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:22:55 -0000
- Folks, Anybody got direct experience with a Honda Accord EX? It looks like I can use their MP3 trim package, and install my 706mk2 in the dash. Trailer hitch mount for the antenna, and I could be in
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-01/msg00042.html (6,956 bytes)
- 3. [RFI] two topics... (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:23:03 -0000
- re: BCI A an open quarter wave stub on 1540 would probably be worth having. re: BPL I wonder what is going on in Manassas????? This was the location of the first system. I assume it is operating? I k
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-02/msg00083.html (6,903 bytes)
- 4. [RFI] bpl & 2.4Gig (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:14:30 -0000
- And then, there are the 2.4 GHz links across the power transformers, every few drops. Can you see the noise going up on the 2.4GHz satellite band? For what it's worth, AMSAT-NA, and the other nationa
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-02/msg00091.html (6,935 bytes)
- 5. [RFI] WSJ & BPL (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:44:14 -0000
- Folks, Haven't read the article yet...I subscribe to WSJ online, but spent most of ystdy debugging a WLAN problem. As it happens, a senior editor at the Journal is a friend. I stayed with him in Prin
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00096.html (7,699 bytes)
- 6. [RFI] WSJ/BPL & WiFi (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:03:25 -0000
- Folks, Two important points: 1) Google BPL, and look at some proposed systems architecture. They're using WiFi to get across the power transformers. Not an AP for every residence, but one per 'group'
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00102.html (7,636 bytes)
- 7. [RFI] WSJ/BPL...disastrous PR! (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:35:10 -0000
- Now that I've read the damned article, I'm really pissed. This reporter became a PR flack for the power industry, and depicted hams in the worst possible light. There's no interference in 8 block lon
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00104.html (8,628 bytes)
- 8. [RFI] BPL/WAP/Public policy (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:13:18 -0000
- Chuck, all... You raised an important point regarding 2.4 GHz wireless access points. The 2.4 GHz satellite downlink band, where AO-40 dwells, has become a swamp, due to the sea of wireless phones an
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00140.html (8,810 bytes)
- 9. [RFI] FW: Broadband over Power Lines (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:05:08 -0000
- RFI-heads...another approach to WSJ, both at editorial and reportorial levels. Ron's kids and mine went to school together. We're long time friends and neighbors. N2EA Ron, I wrote to WSJ reporter Ke
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00145.html (13,181 bytes)
- 10. [RFI] Metricom? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:52:45 -0000
- I googled Metricom, and found no reference to involvement with the power industry. Are these boxes part of the Ricochet network infrastructure? What frequency are they operating on? Where are boxes d
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00159.html (6,418 bytes)
- 11. RE: [RFI] Metricom? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:03:28 -0000
- Got it, Dale. I thought that was the case...but was interested in the Metricom situation, from a business perspective. As in...here's an example of a broadband distribution technology which did NOT w
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00162.html (7,976 bytes)
- 12. [RFI] WSJ-BPL (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:11:53 -0000
- all: I spoke with Ken Brown, the reporter who wrote the WSJ piece, yesterday. Although he works in the WSJ's technology section, he freely admits he's not technical. He also pointed out that he hadn'
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00176.html (7,202 bytes)
- 13. RE: [RFI] WSJ-BPL (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:02:22 -0000
- I think Mike's on-point with his view of BPL. The reality is that they're hoping that interference TO and FROM transient services will be sufficiently brief that they won't have to deal with it. They
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-03/msg00182.html (8,428 bytes)
- 14. [RFI] BPL obsolete (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:19:01 -0000
- Although BPL may be obsolete in most markets... late entry, inadequate value proposition, etc. ... You may have missed one important thing: In the Penn Yann NY case, as in Manasas VA, the business mo
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00032.html (11,700 bytes)
- 15. [RFI] BPL challenge: No Wires, No Rules....INTEL (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:11:46 -0000
- Folks, Today's business week, p. 94, has a special report dealing with wireless broadband access which is being driven by Intel, amongst others. BT in the UK is already working with it. To some degre
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00043.html (7,360 bytes)
- 16. [RFI] BPL (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:47:53 -0000
- Guys.... Get a grip! 1) This is an industry trade show. 2) There will be no "honest tests", just sales demos 3) deliberate interference...and that's what was proposed here, is illegal. And beneath us
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00054.html (6,862 bytes)
- 17. [RFI] Investment vs. interference: BPL (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:52:04 -0000
- Somebody said that the power industry is speaking to the investment community about technology, and we're preaching to the choir. They're right. Guys...suggest you read this week's business week, p.
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00062.html (7,163 bytes)
- 18. [RFI] What's up at 5Gig? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:21:39 -0000
- Got a note asking "what's the big deal at 5 GHz?"... Thought I'd comment on what I see, even though I'm far from an expert. Right now, 802.11b and g, in their lower 6 channels, overlap the amateur 2.
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00082.html (8,826 bytes)
- 19. [RFI] Protecting our frequencies (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:00:12 -0000
- When they're working , amateur satellites project the largest utilization footprint on the planet of any other aspect of amateur radio. You might consider that populating C band (5 GHz) and X band (
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00128.html (7,184 bytes)
- 20. RE: [RFI] Protecting our frequencies (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:16:26 -0000
- Well, Bill, I think you're being a bit short sighted, with respect to future use of microwave bands. But you're right on the money with respect to commercial development vs. amateur work, in the last
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00132.html (11,424 bytes)
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