more on re: Internet Carried On Power Lines, Firm Finishes Hooking Up Manassas

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: October 15, 2005 11:45:31 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Internet Carried On Power Lines, Firm  
Finishes Hooking Up Manassas
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com


[Note:  This comment comes from reader Ed Hare.  DLH]


> From: "Hare, Ed  W1RFI" <w1rfi () arrl org>
> Date: October 15, 2005 8:08:31 AM PDT
> To: <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] Internet Carried On Power Lines, Firm  
> Finishes Hooking Up Manassas
>
>
> As a followup to this story, things are not quite as rosy in  
> Manassas as the press releases indicate. Amateur operators there  
> have been trying to get the City of Manassas to clean up the  
> interference issues it keeps promising to clean up, but has  
> apparently been unable or unwilling to effectively address.
>
> After trying unsucessfully for months to get this resolved locally,  
> several Amateur operators in the area renewed their formal  
> complaints about interference from the system being operated by the  
> City of Manassas.  ARRL has written a letter to the FCC in support  
> of the speedy and proper resolution of these harmful interference  
> complaints.  At the level of the emissions, on the many MHz of  
> spectrum that system is using, only the very strongest of HF  
> signals are occasionally audible, although even these strong  
> signals are very noisy.
>
> More information is available on the ARRL web page at http:// 
> www.arrl.org. The Manassas story is being held at the top of the  
> page for a few days.  ARRL's information on BPL is available at  
> http://www.arrl.org/bpl.  Local amateurs have put together a BPL  
> information site that contains measurements and audio/video  
> documentation of the interference there.  See http://www.target- 
> eng.com/bpl/.
>
> Ed Hare, W1RFI, ARRL Laboratory Manager

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