The TRUTH about BPL! Manassas, VA

[k4kyv]

Imagine if your phone service depended on BPL, and would stop working each
time you or someone else transmitted.  Lets go a step further, what if it was an
emergency, while using a BPL phone, the call couldn't get through or was disconnected?

BPL's key weakness is it's uncontrollable susceptibility to external RF means!

BPL data transfer stopped had to be restarted.

[Bill, KD0HG]

Imagine if your phone service depended on BPL, and would stop working each
time you or someone else transmitted.  Lets go a step further, what if it was an
emergency, while using a BPL phone, the call couldn't get through or was disconnected?

BPL's key weakness is it's uncontrollable susceptibility to external RF means!

BPL data transfer stopped had to be restarted.

Interesting, Don.

Brings to mind a related question...

What about BPL's response to the biggest broadband RF generator of all- Lightning strikes in the vicinity?

[k4kyv]

Or plain old power line noise?

The power companies claim that their lines are presently so bad because the cost of jumping onto every power leak and immediately repairing it as soon as it occurs, would be prohibitive.  But that's what they would have to do to keep BPL running, if it is that sensitive to rf interference. Would BPL bring in enough revenue to pay for all that new maintenance they say they cannot afford?

[W1RKW]

The power companies will just raise their rates like they've been doing.  Here in CT we've seen some pretty large increases recently, not related to BPL but related to other things so they can stay in the black.  Albeit the  increases are approved by a utility commission but if the commission sees the logic for the increase the utilities usually get approval for the increase.