How many of us actually like to listen to our old radios?

[RickB]

Just wondering because if certain parties before the FCC have their way, we won't enjoy much of the beautiful sounds of our old rigs for long...

Broad Band over Powerline

An incredible amount of RF sent over UNSHIELDED power lines, which interestingly enough, are also called transmission lines...but we radio nuts know them as ANTENNAS!

Yep, broadband noise, from 1.8 MHz to 80MHz, overlaying everything, no more BBC, Radio Espania, HCJB, etc., no more Ham radio, no more CB (mmmmmm, gotta think about that one....) no more low band VHF, and listening to international airline flights? Hah, your local noise level is going to be way above any of the tiny signals that get here from that Boeing over the ocean....

It's been tried in several countries, and failed, yet there is an incredible push going on to have it rammed down the throats of Americans... if the Japanese, who some may consider one of the most technically advanced societies on Earth can't get it to work, the Netherlands, Austria, etc., can't get it to work, who in their right mind is going to think that miles of transmission lines with RF flowing on it is going to be anything but a boondoggle....

It means money for power companies, not really from the Internet service, but from everything else they can get from the info that will be able to be sent down the pipe....and then sold to the highest bidder..personal info and habits... what your TV was tuned to, what DVD you were watching...

Now, if I was a paranoid sort, I could imagine all sorts of consumer electronics with imbedded chips to spy on us, err, collect saleable information.....



ARRL Link in Broad Band over Powerline