Why can a national off switch for BPL be implemented so that during times of emergency BPL could be deactivated allowing interference free radio operation?
This makes an assumption that only emergency HF communications are needed and normal day-to-day communications are not. This is not the case. Looking at this sampling of non-Amateur HF frequencies, there’s a massive amount of day-to-day communications for aeronautical, military, and other government agencies. Assuming for a moment that we could live with only emergency communications and were going to implement a mechanism to turn off all BPL on command, the logistics of such of system would be staggering. Who would trigger such a switch? If it was a linked system, how would it be secured? What if companies wanted to legally challenge activations as any activations of the system would impact their bottom line? The FCC declares communications emergencies several times a year in which Amateurs must avoid the use of several frequencies so that emergency traffic can be passed. Assuming a national off switch would be synchronized with this, BPL users could expect to have outages lasting sev
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