No, but if a ham is within the 'sphere of interference' that BPL causes on certain portions of the spectrum that they are legally entitled to operate on, there is nothing the BPL provider can do if the ham decides to park an antenna within 100 yards of the lines and broadcast 1500 W of power into the air at the freq's the BPL is operating on... thereby causing complete distruction (from a transmission perspective) of internet connectivity.
Section 5 of the FCC regulations state that any device operating must accept any harmful interference from any device that is licensed to operate at similar frequencies.
Now, that being said... because BPL advocates have much larger lobbies than amateur radio, they have managed to get the FCC to basically ignore their own regulations and all but 'stick it' to the ham operator, even though the ham is legally entitled to that slice of the pie.
SDR has long been considered the 'Holy Grail' in radio communications.
There were quite a few pages dedicated to the advances in digital radio and SDR in Monitoring Times a few months back.
One of the biggest advantages to a true SDR radio is that the manufacturer can build one or two models of radios, and have different software loads depending on bandsplit, features, costs, etc.
Motorola tried that with their Jedi-series and XTS series of handy talkies over the past decade... biggest problem was that it is pretty simple (technologically) to take a radio with no special features (smartnet, digital modes, tone signalling, etc.) and enable the features by cloning the software load of another model.
They did smarten up to that with the MTS2000 line of radios; any attempt to force a 'codeplug' into it that didn't belong would turn the unit into a brick, and you'd have to send it back to Motorola for a costly repair (as well as a stern talking to for 'hacking' at the radio).
True software defined radios would be a lot easier to secure... on paper it would drive prices way down... in reality, as long as the radio manufacturers control the public service contracts, prices will still remain sky high.
As an aside, WiNRADiO markets a device that could *almost* be considered an SDR device... super pricey for a receiver, but neat concept.
I am looking forward to the day we see true SDR transceivers.
You take a brick from the bottom and you put it on top, You take a brick from the middle and you put it on top. That's how you build the tower; you just don't stop. You keep building that tower putting blocks on top. It teeters and it totters, but you don't give up; It weebles and it wobbles, but you build it on up. You take a brick from the bottom and you put it on top, You take a brick from the middle and you put it on top, 'Til someone knocks it over, and that's when you stop...
I imagine a plausible idea to solve the "middle brick" failure would be to have trays of bricks that you can slide out in the event of failure.
A simple RAID 5 type system would be able to mitigate the potential loss of a tray of bricks while the dead brick was swapped.
A more intelligent system may be able to actively monitor the health of each brick, detect a failure, shuffle data around, and plot a path on a screen to the dead brick.
ie. "To replace brick 1234, please remove brick 2345 first. Then remove 4532. Then remove 9786. Then remove 4575. Now remove 1234, replace. Now reinsert previously removed bricks"
Then the system would shuffle the data back to the bricks that went offline.
This idea is really only feasable for "small cubes", less than 5x5 or so... huge grids would need something along the lines of a tray system instead.
The company I work for had to put in a new password policy in order to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.
They even pushed a global policy to the desktop making all workstations lock after 5 minutes of inactivity.
'Bout time.
Oh, and P.S.... 1.9Ghz doesn't have a "1 mile" range... range is all a function of geography, and wattage... there's lots of satellites that operate way higher than 1.9Ghz.
Amateur radio prefixes are assigned geographically.
VE3 is Canadian; Ontario specifically.
My call sign while in the US is VE3ECM/W2... the W2 suffix is the area I am currently located.
arrl.org has more info on callsigns.
The portion of the spectrum that they hang out on (the HF bands, ~140 mhz, ~440 mhz) don't have the bandwidth for this stuff...
The FCC is auction chunks of higher frequency spectrum...
Hams have little pieces of it here and there (ie 902 mhz, 927 mhz, some 1.2Ghz and 1.6Ghz IIRC)... but the chunks are so small that there's not really much to gain by yanking it.
Most of this spectrum is in the 800-900 mhz 1.8-2.0 Ghz bands...
There's a big push behind the scenes to move the public safety bands out of 800 mhz and into the 700's... that frees up a lot of 800 for cell carriers, and eliminates that nasty Nextel interference that a lot of trunked radio systems in metro areas experience.
You're right. You have no idea what "my" situation is, you sanctimonious jackass.
But since you're quite the ASSumption maker...
My wife wanted to move to Canada when we got married... she's a highly trained research scientist; she could get a job there in a second. I quit an even higher paying job then I have now to marry her and move to the US.
She wanted to move there because (in her opinion) it's safer, cleaner, friendlier, more liberal, and the general quality-of-life kicks the US in the ass.
I convinced her not to leave because I was not willing to separate her from her very close-knit large family.
I especially love your "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." comment. Priceless.
Were your ancestors native American, garcia? Judging from your name, not bloody likely. So you're guilty of the same crime you accuse me of.
Why don't you take your close-minded opinions somewhere else? The US gov't welcomed me with open arms. Why? Because according to YOUR law, I'm welcome here. My wife and I have a long established history of a relationship; for you to insinuate that I "used" her in any way just to come to this country, is reprehensible and disgusting. If you and I were in the same room, you probably would get a black eye for that comment. Insulting a man's reasoning for marrying his wife once upon a time ended with pistols at 10 yards.
Keep your bigoted opinions to yourself next time.
Oh, and garcia? Attitudes like yours are why so many American women are looking outside of America for men. And thanks for that.
I married an American, which exempted me from needing H1 status.
Moved here, and had a great paying job as a Data Analyst in NYC within a week.
If I can do it... either you're spending all of your time just looking online (which is doomed for failure) or you just don't know how to properly search/interview for a job.
An employment councillor can help you with either problem.
...is to wait and see if ATI gets considerable pressure to release a working Linux driver for it's HD-Wonder...
That's a cheap, well-built solution that would suit your needs. Linux users really need to try harder to force ATI to create a small team for creating these drivers.
Honestly, though: WTF? That can't be a hard fix. In fact, I'd bet it's downright simple.
I imagine they say it would increase case costs, but really, the increase would be marginal.
I'm seriously getting tired of these guys making new stuff with features 75% of us don't use or care about, and not making simple usability fixes instead.
I took a look at the article... flipped to the section on the sample AOpen case.
What I'm curious to know is if these guys FINALLY got rid of those god-awful nests of wires that you have to plug into the mobo for power, HDD LED, etc.
God, I hate those things. You either have to spend 15 min. reading the Engrish on the mobo manual to try and figure out which is which, or just cross your fingers and hope for the best.
A molex-type connector (or something along those lines) would make my life a lot easier.
Stratego was (and still is) a fun game to play that doesn't require the sometimes hours and hours it takes to play Risk.
Easy enough for a kid to learn, but strategies are so varied, it's hard to ever master it against another good player...
As an aside, I loved throwing a few Major and Colonels at the front with all my scouts and a couple of Miners and decimating my opponents' lower ranks... that gambit usually only works once or twice on them... unless they're slow to adapt.
Ignore all that fancy "Harry Potter" type themed Legos that are 3 times the price of basic blocks. You can buy a huge tub of basic Lego for around 20 bucks at Toys R Us or any Lego Store.
You can get a MASSIVE amount of plain lego that's great for stimulating a kid's imagination at a fraction of the cost of some of that "themed" Lego junk.
If that's not "creative" enough, find some Technics Lego. That stuff is neat to play with, too!
Fantastic! I can finally use gmail on my PDAphone... Google doesn't support gmail on PocketPC... but I can d/l my mail to my desktop mail prog, then sync that way.
Bravo Google. Keep pumpin.
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Section 5 of the FCC regulations state that any device operating must accept any harmful interference from any device that is licensed to operate at similar frequencies.
Now, that being said... because BPL advocates have much larger lobbies than amateur radio, they have managed to get the FCC to basically ignore their own regulations and all but 'stick it' to the ham operator, even though the ham is legally entitled to that slice of the pie.
The Amateur Radio Relay League site on BPL has a lot more information.
There were quite a few pages dedicated to the advances in digital radio and SDR in Monitoring Times a few months back.
One of the biggest advantages to a true SDR radio is that the manufacturer can build one or two models of radios, and have different software loads depending on bandsplit, features, costs, etc.
Motorola tried that with their Jedi-series and XTS series of handy talkies over the past decade... biggest problem was that it is pretty simple (technologically) to take a radio with no special features (smartnet, digital modes, tone signalling, etc.) and enable the features by cloning the software load of another model.
They did smarten up to that with the MTS2000 line of radios; any attempt to force a 'codeplug' into it that didn't belong would turn the unit into a brick, and you'd have to send it back to Motorola for a costly repair (as well as a stern talking to for 'hacking' at the radio).
True software defined radios would be a lot easier to secure... on paper it would drive prices way down... in reality, as long as the radio manufacturers control the public service contracts, prices will still remain sky high.
As an aside, WiNRADiO markets a device that could *almost* be considered an SDR device... super pricey for a receiver, but neat concept.
I am looking forward to the day we see true SDR transceivers.
Freakin' hopeless.
A little quick on the draw I see?
Or maybe you hit your limits already? ;)
You take a brick from the middle and you put it on top.
That's how you build the tower; you just don't stop.
You keep building that tower putting blocks on top.
It teeters and it totters, but you don't give up;
It weebles and it wobbles, but you build it on up.
You take a brick from the bottom and you put it on top,
You take a brick from the middle and you put it on top,
'Til someone knocks it over, and that's when you stop...
'Cause your ass got fired.
A simple RAID 5 type system would be able to mitigate the potential loss of a tray of bricks while the dead brick was swapped.
A more intelligent system may be able to actively monitor the health of each brick, detect a failure, shuffle data around, and plot a path on a screen to the dead brick.
ie. "To replace brick 1234, please remove brick 2345 first. Then remove 4532. Then remove 9786. Then remove 4575. Now remove 1234, replace. Now reinsert previously removed bricks"
Then the system would shuffle the data back to the bricks that went offline.
This idea is really only feasable for "small cubes", less than 5x5 or so... huge grids would need something along the lines of a tray system instead.
The company I work for had to put in a new password policy in order to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. They even pushed a global policy to the desktop making all workstations lock after 5 minutes of inactivity. 'Bout time.
This isn't an amateur radio issue.
Oh, and P.S.... 1.9Ghz doesn't have a "1 mile" range... range is all a function of geography, and wattage... there's lots of satellites that operate way higher than 1.9Ghz.
Amateur radio prefixes are assigned geographically. VE3 is Canadian; Ontario specifically. My call sign while in the US is VE3ECM/W2... the W2 suffix is the area I am currently located. arrl.org has more info on callsigns.
The portion of the spectrum that they hang out on (the HF bands, ~140 mhz, ~440 mhz) don't have the bandwidth for this stuff...
The FCC is auction chunks of higher frequency spectrum...
Hams have little pieces of it here and there (ie 902 mhz, 927 mhz, some 1.2Ghz and 1.6Ghz IIRC)... but the chunks are so small that there's not really much to gain by yanking it.
Most of this spectrum is in the 800-900 mhz 1.8-2.0 Ghz bands...
There's a big push behind the scenes to move the public safety bands out of 800 mhz and into the 700's... that frees up a lot of 800 for cell carriers, and eliminates that nasty Nextel interference that a lot of trunked radio systems in metro areas experience.
Best ham site on the web. The image galleries are especially gut-busting.
Go check it out.
FP FP FP FP! (Never got one before. I can burn a karma point.)
The car crash cadaver and the "murderer"-type cadavers both came straight out of that book.
It's a good read. Glad my wife gave it to me to read.
I'm digging the Longhorn theme you have there. Where'd you get it?
At about 2X the cost of the cheapest one (50 vs. 25 bucks), it's easily worth the expense.
I dunno about you, but the amount of time it would take me to get my laptop out of my bag, fire it up, and try to connect isn't minor.
The ability to show if I'm wasting my time or not is worth the extra 25 bucks.
But since you're quite the ASSumption maker...
My wife wanted to move to Canada when we got married... she's a highly trained research scientist; she could get a job there in a second. I quit an even higher paying job then I have now to marry her and move to the US.
She wanted to move there because (in her opinion) it's safer, cleaner, friendlier, more liberal, and the general quality-of-life kicks the US in the ass.
I convinced her not to leave because I was not willing to separate her from her very close-knit large family.
I especially love your "...jobs that born/raised Americans need." comment. Priceless.
Were your ancestors native American, garcia? Judging from your name, not bloody likely. So you're guilty of the same crime you accuse me of.
Why don't you take your close-minded opinions somewhere else? The US gov't welcomed me with open arms. Why? Because according to YOUR law, I'm welcome here. My wife and I have a long established history of a relationship; for you to insinuate that I "used" her in any way just to come to this country, is reprehensible and disgusting. If you and I were in the same room, you probably would get a black eye for that comment. Insulting a man's reasoning for marrying his wife once upon a time ended with pistols at 10 yards.
Keep your bigoted opinions to yourself next time.
Oh, and garcia? Attitudes like yours are why so many American women are looking outside of America for men. And thanks for that.
Moved here, and had a great paying job as a Data Analyst in NYC within a week.
If I can do it... either you're spending all of your time just looking online (which is doomed for failure) or you just don't know how to properly search/interview for a job.
An employment councillor can help you with either problem.
During the weekends, I enjoy going for a nice drive.
So what happens with the people who drive for fun? Do they get a special lane, a special highway, a special car?
This idea will never happen. Too many people enjoy driving for this to really catch on.
That's a cheap, well-built solution that would suit your needs. Linux users really need to try harder to force ATI to create a small team for creating these drivers.
Honestly, though: WTF? That can't be a hard fix. In fact, I'd bet it's downright simple.
I imagine they say it would increase case costs, but really, the increase would be marginal.
I'm seriously getting tired of these guys making new stuff with features 75% of us don't use or care about, and not making simple usability fixes instead.
What I'm curious to know is if these guys FINALLY got rid of those god-awful nests of wires that you have to plug into the mobo for power, HDD LED, etc.
God, I hate those things. You either have to spend 15 min. reading the Engrish on the mobo manual to try and figure out which is which, or just cross your fingers and hope for the best.
A molex-type connector (or something along those lines) would make my life a lot easier.
Anyone know?
Easy enough for a kid to learn, but strategies are so varied, it's hard to ever master it against another good player...
As an aside, I loved throwing a few Major and Colonels at the front with all my scouts and a couple of Miners and decimating my opponents' lower ranks... that gambit usually only works once or twice on them... unless they're slow to adapt.
Ignore all that fancy "Harry Potter" type themed Legos that are 3 times the price of basic blocks. You can buy a huge tub of basic Lego for around 20 bucks at Toys R Us or any Lego Store.
You can get a MASSIVE amount of plain lego that's great for stimulating a kid's imagination at a fraction of the cost of some of that "themed" Lego junk.
If that's not "creative" enough, find some Technics Lego. That stuff is neat to play with, too!
Fantastic! I can finally use gmail on my PDAphone... Google doesn't support gmail on PocketPC... but I can d/l my mail to my desktop mail prog, then sync that way. Bravo Google. Keep pumpin.
What 802.11 protocols is this going to support?
The article claims Intel's main reasoning for this is to make the PC "...act as a Wi-Fi access point."
Okay, if they're not going to put in the new protocols (ie 802.11n, etc.) what's the point?
Anyone have anymore details?