[RFI] Today's Wall Stree Journal front page article on hams & BPL

[N6KJ]

The FCC has stated that BPL "must not cause harmful interference".
The BPL test sites are still bound by Part 15 requirements.
There are documented cases of "harmful interference" in the BPL test
sites (as I know you are personally aware).  Have you (or anyone else)
filed a complaint? What has the FCC done to enforce the rules so far?   
Have interference problems been resolved in some/all cases?  Has
Riley been out to look at the interference at any of the test sites?  Is the FCC
simply ignoring the interference because these are "test sites"?  Are they
ignoring it because most of the interference reports have come from
mobile stations?  I mean the test sites are a small example of what it
will be like.    


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:40:56 -0500, "Hare,Ed, W1RFI" wrote:

> 
> The reporter personally saw S9+ noise levels on the mobile transceiver.  He
> personally saw that receiver hearing signals from all over the world as we drove
> to the test area.  He saw that recevier receive interference for a half mile
past
> the BPL test area and he heard that interference on MHz after MHz.
> 
> After all that, he talked about how amateur radio "claims" there is interference
> instead of portraying it as fact.
> 
> Still, overall, I think it was important to get the interfernce aspects of BPL
> into national attention. It did get top billing in the article.
> 
> 73,
> Ed Hare, W1RFI
>