Topband: FCC Now Accepting Comments

[Greg Chartrand]

From: "ARRL Web site" <memberlist at www.arrl.org>

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:39:43 -0400


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ARRL Bulletin 31
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT
To all radio amateurs

SB QST ARL ARLB031
ARLB031 FCC Now Accepting Comments in ''Broadband Over
Power
Line''Inquiry

The FCC released its Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the
deployment of
''Broadband over Power Line'' (BPL) technology on
April 28 and now is
accepting comments. A form of carrier-current
communication better
known as power line carrier (PLC), the technology has
raised
concerns of substantial interference to the Amateur
Radio HF bands.

BPL would couple high-frequency RF to parts of the
power grid and
use existing power lines as the transmission medium to
deliver
broadband and Internet access. In the NOI, the FCC
acknowledges the
interference risk from BPL.

ARRL Lab Manager and RFI guru Ed Hare, W1RFI, has
cautioned that
deployment of BPL could affect every amateur in
communities where
it's employed with a significant increase in noise
levels. More
information is on the Web at
www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/.

The complete NOI is available on the FCC Web site. The
FCC now is
accepting electronically filed comments via its
Electronic Comment
Filing System ECFS Express page. To initiate a
comment, click next
to ''Broadband over the traditional telephone
network.''
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