[TowerTalk] BPL interference

[Rick Bullon]

Hello All
I know that the BPL issue has been beat to death and I don't to upset any of 
you that is feed up with the last few threads on the subject but, I just 
read the latest ARRL Bulletin. There is a quote in there from the FCC that 
really surprised me!


"In addition, because power lines inherently can radiate significant
noise emissions as noted by NTIA and ARRL, good engineering practice
is to locate sensitive receiver antennas as far as practicable from
power lines," the FCC said.

In a footnote, the FCC admonished ARRL that in cases where its
members experience RF noise, "such noise can often be avoided by
carefully locating their antennas; in many instances an antenna
relocation of only a relatively short distance can resolve noise
interference."


So according to the above statement if we expirence interference from BPL we 
are suppose to move our antennas!!!  I don't know about any one else but I 
will be damn if they want be to move my 70'tower because of BPL!!!

This is going to affect most of you in the cities more than me. BPL is 
suppose to bring high speed internet to the rural areas like mine yea sure 
when pigs fly, I'll never see BPL here where it is suppose to be but those 
of you in the cities better start looking for a new place for their antennas 
because it seems the FCC is going to back pedal on BPL interface complaints
73
Rick
KC5AJX