[BC] BPL flaws

[Rob Atkinson]

well, that's what I thought.  i figured the low voltage part is the drops to 
the customers.  if bpl is on them, then it's right there radiating at the 
location of the (in the case of hams) station equipment, not far away.  so 
why that's supposed to be better is beyond me.  oh, I just reread your 
post--I guess "low voltage" means the segment just before the stepdown to 
240 v.

Surprisingly, the ARRL is praising or seems to be praising the Motorola 
system.  Maybe I've missed something.

Rob Atkinson


From: "CBoone" <CBoone at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
To: "'Broadcast Radio Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: RE: [BC] BPL flaws
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:01:23 -0500

"Alleged" but it would cost to much to run BPL to Ma and Pa Kettle....and if
they did, their VHF TV would be shot to hell!BPL is nothing but farce and a
crock.......BTW the low voltage parts of the grid (less than 20KV single
phase or 34.5 3 phase) is exactly where the problem lies...and they have the
worse noise issues anyway (69kv and above hardly have an arc noise
problem....such would burn away eventually...corona hum is the only issue
there!)

Chris
(Former Sr Telecom Egr Tech, GSU/Entergy, TX...been there, got the tshirt)

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
 > [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Ron Youvan
 > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:43 PM
 > To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
 > Subject: Re: [BC] BPL flaws
 >
 > > the new motorola bpl system is supposed to run the bpl only
 > on the low
 > > voltage portions of the grids (how that helps I don't know) and the
 > > unofficial word is that it effectively notches the ham bands.
 >
 >    Where the power line goes 3 to 5 miles through the
 > cornfields to the farm house there is no low voltage portion
 > of the grid.  That farm house is the allegedly the reason for BPL.
 > --


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