Subject: Re: [NEXTEL-1] The next big thing in Web access: Power lines

From: "Kenneth Van Patten" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:29:49 -0400

I can agree the FCC is not addressing the problems of unwanted emitters that cause interference to lowband systems. in fact I know they don't want to, I know their answer to interference complaints, buy a cell phone  "we have bigger fish to fry" then fool around with leaky cable plants, unshielded computers, home entertainment equipment, power line hum from bad or damaged insulators, unlicensed operators creeping into the 30-50 MHz band, and the infamous video buzz from some idiot trying to add more amplification to a fringe area TV antenna that already has a pre-amp. I can also understand some area's do suffer from high then normal man-made noise but we have only mother nature to contend with here in south Florida. Now enter BPL. Our backup is a UHF E-trunked system. I note we are the only active licensee on our lowband frequency in the state of Florida. As far as propagation goes its non-existent even during the peak of the sunspot cycle, What more can you ask for.       
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Smith 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:36 PM
  Subject: RE: [NEXTEL-1] The next big thing in Web access: Power lines

  I agree. I love low band. My employer has a large low band system, well over 50 sites, and it works well. The problem is: the FCC is blind to the reality that it will cause significant harm to low band and HF services.

  Then again, low band has been prone to all kinds of interference as long as I have been in 2-way, which is over 30 years. Skip, which we all live with. The noise floor, which is always increasing as more devices use digital logic and trees wiping out those big tall antennas.

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  From: Kenneth Van Patten [mailto:[email-masked]] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 19:02
  To: [email-masked]
  Subject: Re: [NEXTEL-1] The next big thing in Web access: Power lines

  Why should we drop a perfectly good system with 50 Miles of coverage and we own the towers. It doesn't cost much to operate this system other then maintenance. I sold many of our 800 MHz licenses to Nextel in the nineties. I never regretted it Because I have a 58'  Oceans cruiser that burns a lot of diesel full.

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Bill Smith 

    To: [email-masked] 

    Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:28 PM

    Subject: RE: [NEXTEL-1] The next big thing in Web access: Power lines

    Well, the obvious solution is to dump the low band and go NEXTEL!!!!!!!  J

    What's Nextel's position on BPL? I would think they support it since it might force a few customers their way. Or are they against it because THEY want the data business?

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    From: Kenneth Van Patten [mailto:[email-masked]] 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 14:34
    To: [email-masked]
    Subject: Re: [NEXTEL-1] The next big thing in Web access: Power lines

    Not really, I was sitting here listening to the power line hum in our lowband base station receiver when that article popped up.  

      ----- Original Message ----- 

      From: SueNY 

      To: [email-masked] 

      Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:05 PM

      Subject: Re: [NEXTEL-1] The next big thing in Web access: Power lines

      Having a bad day are we??

      SueNY

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