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[IP] more on re: Internet Carried On Power Lines, Firm Finishes Hooking Up Manassas





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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 15, 2005 11:45:31 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Internet Carried On Power Lines, Firm Finishes Hooking Up Manassas
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[Note:  This comment comes from reader Ed Hare.  DLH]


From: "Hare, Ed  W1RFI" <w1rfi@xxxxxxxx>
Date: October 15, 2005 8:08:31 AM PDT
To: <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] Internet Carried On Power Lines, Firm Finishes Hooking Up Manassas


As a followup to this story, things are not quite as rosy in Manassas as the press releases indicate. Amateur operators there have been trying to get the City of Manassas to clean up the interference issues it keeps promising to clean up, but has apparently been unable or unwilling to effectively address.

After trying unsucessfully for months to get this resolved locally, several Amateur operators in the area renewed their formal complaints about interference from the system being operated by the City of Manassas. ARRL has written a letter to the FCC in support of the speedy and proper resolution of these harmful interference complaints. At the level of the emissions, on the many MHz of spectrum that system is using, only the very strongest of HF signals are occasionally audible, although even these strong signals are very noisy.

More information is available on the ARRL web page at http:// www.arrl.org. The Manassas story is being held at the top of the page for a few days. ARRL's information on BPL is available at http://www.arrl.org/bpl. Local amateurs have put together a BPL information site that contains measurements and audio/video documentation of the interference there. See http://www.target- eng.com/bpl/.

Ed Hare, W1RFI, ARRL Laboratory Manager


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