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From: CliffHazen@aol.com
The Electrical Power industry does not have to overturn the laws of
physics,
just take over the frequency allocations by changing FCC application of its
own regulations.
Not only is your description very perceptive, but there already is an
example out there on how to accomplish just that. If you want to see how
BPL might turn out in the future for Amateur Radio, watch the 800Mhz
rebanding controversy as it unfolds.
First, Nextel got a set of 800Mhz freqs that were interleaved with other
users, particularly public safety. Then they installed a "new digital
technology" (iDEN) within their channels that lead to interference to
neighboring channels as a result of the nature of mixing their digital
technology with low antenna sites interleaved with analog system users on
high sites. The result was and is dead spots in the analog systems near
every cell site. On trunked systems, the PS radios become bricks unable to
transmit or receive.
Nextel's proposed solution? Public Safety should move! This gives both of
them contiguous spectrum. They've also proposed that they (Nextel) would
pay up to $500M in relocation costs. That's like having a neighbor with a
loud stereo blasting away telling you to move if you don't like it! And
he'll pay for the cardboard boxes for you to pack.
Guess what? The FCC is entertaining Nextel's proposal; and now there are
dozens of other proposals in order to attempt to lessen the impact and ask
for more relocation money. They're going thru much the same process with
BPL now that they went through with Nextel so far. The outcome could be
very revealing.
73,
de ed -K0iL
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