Do me a favor--repeat your test, but this time see if it affects AM radio reception. Choose a weak station in the high end of the AM band (around 1400 or so) and tell us if the bulb makes the radio buzz.
I'd start replacing bulbs in my home tomorrow if they didn't cause RFI...
You claim that if you have to use ham radios for emergency communication, it will be because the power's out/the internet's down/pick your catastrophe... and then BPL won't be interfering with the hams, who can then step in and save the day.
What you fail to recognize is that if BPL obliterates the HF spectrum, hams will no longer have incentive to maintain the ability to use the HF bands they currently use. Next time there's a tornado, earthquake, 9/11-type terrorist attack, there may not be hams there to help.
Both Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 come with a CD titled "Solaris Companion Software CD". If you can't find that CD, you can download the ISO from the above page, as well as download individual packages.
IIRC, Consumer Reports gave the Sharper Image Ionic Breeze a hefty thumbs-down.
You might look at air cleaners of the type used in woodworking shops... they'd be a bit louder than the Ionic Breeze (understatement), but they'd actually do something useful for the money spent.
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Do me a favor--repeat your test, but this time see if it affects AM radio reception. Choose a weak station in the high end of the AM band (around 1400 or so) and tell us if the bulb makes the radio buzz.
I'd start replacing bulbs in my home tomorrow if they didn't cause RFI...
Wrong. You meant this location.
Visit their Image Center for simulations of what the world will look like if you're one of the unlucky ones...
There's a fatal flaw in your argument.
You claim that if you have to use ham radios for emergency communication, it will be because the power's out/the internet's down/pick your catastrophe... and then BPL won't be interfering with the hams, who can then step in and save the day.
What you fail to recognize is that if BPL obliterates the HF spectrum, hams will no longer have incentive to maintain the ability to use the HF bands they currently use. Next time there's a tornado, earthquake, 9/11-type terrorist attack, there may not be hams there to help.
Both Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 come with a CD titled "Solaris Companion Software CD". If you can't find that CD, you can download the ISO from the above page, as well as download individual packages.
IIRC, Consumer Reports gave the Sharper Image Ionic Breeze a hefty thumbs-down.
You might look at air cleaners of the type used in woodworking shops... they'd be a bit louder than the Ionic Breeze (understatement), but they'd actually do something useful for the money spent.
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Sorta like "I talked to some programmer guy named Knuth."
Guess I don't need to buy it now...