I'm there. I would love to be able to speak in a language that maybe a couple of hundred people on earth know fluently. It's like when foreign exchange students speak their language to others from their country in front of their classmates. It's cool. Nobody knows what you're saying...
Ah, but you see, Tolkien *was* a trained linguist. Granted, Elves are not technically aliens, but it could be said that aliens are the elves of sci-fi.
Being a licensed ham and a member of the ARRL, I think that the folks on here naysaying the hazardous potential of BPL are really missing the point. The hazard is not necessarily the admittedly low potential for dangerous RF exposure. Milliwats of any RF is unlikely to do damage, when you consider that the cell phone most of you carry in your pocket daily puts out nearly a half watt of energy at much more (potentially) dangerous microwave frequencies. The hazard in BPL is the (proven) much higher potential for interference to emergency communications, such as ham radio, military, aircraft, and government. So why not just lay cheap fiber optic, where the potential for interference is zero? Perhaps the power companies need to stop begging the FCC to give them a Part 15 exemption and spend a little less money on lawyers and worthless research and a little more on safer, more reliable media for Internet access.
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I'm there. I would love to be able to speak in a language that maybe a couple of hundred people on earth know fluently. It's like when foreign exchange students speak their language to others from their country in front of their classmates. It's cool. Nobody knows what you're saying...
Ah, but you see, Tolkien *was* a trained linguist. Granted, Elves are not technically aliens, but it could be said that aliens are the elves of sci-fi.
Being a licensed ham and a member of the ARRL, I think that the folks on here naysaying the hazardous potential of BPL are really missing the point. The hazard is not necessarily the admittedly low potential for dangerous RF exposure. Milliwats of any RF is unlikely to do damage, when you consider that the cell phone most of you carry in your pocket daily puts out nearly a half watt of energy at much more (potentially) dangerous microwave frequencies. The hazard in BPL is the (proven) much higher potential for interference to emergency communications, such as ham radio, military, aircraft, and government. So why not just lay cheap fiber optic, where the potential for interference is zero? Perhaps the power companies need to stop begging the FCC to give them a Part 15 exemption and spend a little less money on lawyers and worthless research and a little more on safer, more reliable media for Internet access.