[BC] The FCC bends over...AGAIN

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Carrier Current doesn't go through the transformers, so it is  
naturally limited in distance.  It IS possible to couple it over the  
transformer, but a the power limits allowed it never goes more than  
400 yards.

The bottom line is that it was intended as the "last mile"  
connection, between the street and the home.  Initially they may have  
had greater plans, but those darned laws of physics...

--chip

On Oct 25, 2007, at 8:35 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:15:44 -0500
> From: "Jerry Mathis" <thebeaver32 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] The FCC bends over...AGAIN
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> On 10/24/07, Bill Harms <philcobill at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that one of the  
>> biggest
>> selling points for BPL was that it would hook up users in rural areas
>> that would not have ground-based Internet otherwise.  I am talking  
>> about
>> the wide open spaces in the West especially.
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> Yes, it was. But they discovered it's too difficult, or too  
> expensive, or
> both, to do BPL that way, because the signal has to be amplified and
> re-transmitted every little whipstitch. So then it appears they  
> want to
> serve customers CLOSE BY.
>
> After a little research, and a lot of common sense, I think BPL is  
> just
> plain bad technology. It was undoubtedly thought up by someone with  
> little
> knowledge of data transmission and RF systems, and a lot of time on  
> his
> hands, who was looking for a way to make a quick buck. We saw the same
> stupid kind of thinking with the idea for radios in ambulances and  
> emergency
> vehicles to transmit a wideband warning signal. Someone wanting to  
> make a
> quick buck regardless of the laws of physics and the resulting  
> unintended
> consequences.
>
> -- 
> Jerry Mathis