Topband: BPL - What are YOU doing?

[Steve Lawrence]

And while you're taking the time to respond (see below), you might 
consider cutting a check to the League to fight this. The thousands of 
dollars you have invested in equipment and antennas certainly warrants 
doing what you can to make sure you will be able to continue using them!

If you have doubts, go to the link below and LISTEN!

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1

73, Steve WB6RSE

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 09:13  AM, k6se at juno.com wrote:

> As I understand it, the Broadband over Power Line (BPL) proposal by the
> electric power companies is an attempt to have the FCC relax the 
> present
> power line radiation limits.  Yet, in the same breath, the electric 
> power
> companies have stated that BPL already is within those limits.  If so,
> then why do they want the limits relaxed?
>
> I have watched the ARRL video of the mobile test that W1RFI made in 
> late
> July of the four areas where BPL is being tested and I was appalled by
> the level and type of interference that BPL causes in the HF spectrum
> (even though W1RFI said that the radiation was within the FCC limits).
> The ARRL news story and the downloadable video are available at
> http://www.remote.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1
>
> BPL sweeps the range of 2 to 80MHz, so if you operate on 80 thru 6 
> meters
> and BPL goes nationwide, it'll wipe you out.  You also might have to
> stand the wrath of neighbors who connect to the Internet via BPL if you
> interfere with it.
>
> To file your comments on-line with the FCC, go to
> http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
>
> The Proceeding number which you should type into box 1 is 03-104.
>
> The deadline for filing your comments is August 20th.
>
> 73, de Earl, K6SE
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