[BC] Update on BPL

[Tom Bosscher]

Peter Smerdon wrote:
 >I recall a lot of angst some time ago on one of the lists about 
Broadband over Power Lines (AM interference worries).
 >Can somebody update me on whether this technology has made any inroads 
in the US - and if so, what the impact has been on the AM and ham bands.

    BPl by most manufactors does not co-exist with low band ham radio. 
Motorola has a set of modems that neatly avoid all the amateur bands. 
But, it looks like BPL is just too expensive to install and maintain. 
Several utilities have tried and failed to get decent numbers of 
subscribers. In one humorous case, the spokesman for the utility blamed 
other broadband suppliers for having "prices that are too low"!

    The ARRL has a whole lot of information. Look at 
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/

    tom bosscher  K8TB