[CVCC] Fw: [TowerTalk] How to File BPL Comments with the FCC

Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:20:35 -0000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <[email protected]>
To: "Bill Tippett" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 07 August, 2003 21:46
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] How to File BPL Comments with the FCC


> US HAMS - PLEASE TALK THIS UP AMONG YOUR LOCAL CLUB MEMBERS!
>
> Members of the Florida Contest Group started doing this over the
past
> few days and a number of us have visited the site and done just
> this...as of earlier today less than one percent of the US amateur
> population had filed any comment on the matter - this stinks!
>
> Please get your Local, Contest and DX clubs memberships to see
W4ZV's
> "how to" note - repost it to your local reflector... and hound your
> friends on this...
>
> This is a real threat to what we love to do - OPERATE!
>
> Club officers please encourage your membership to submit their
> comments... it is easy to do and you do not have to be a electrical
> engineer just state the basics of how BPL will render the radio
spectrum
> used by our country's Communications First Responders useless.
>
> I personally added in my comments the fact that the local power
> companies take years to fix arcing insulators on a pole which cause
> interference to AM broadcast as well as Amateur bands.  How can the
same
> people who do such a poor job of maintaining this basic system be
> expected to maintain a system needing a higher degree of stability?
>
> GO TO THE WEB SITE - ENCOURAGE YOUR FELLOW CLUB MEMBERS TO GO TO THE
WEB
> SITE - FOLLOW UP WITH THEM!
>
> The reason this did not work in Japan was that the JA ham community
> posed objections to its usage... we have an even more active amateur
> population here in the states, lets get some numbers working in our
> favor to remove the threat to our beloved hobby that BPL poses.
>
> DO IT!
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, K4OJ
>
>
>
> Bill Tippett wrote:
> > At 11:16 AM 8/7/03 -0700, WY6K wrote:
> >
> >> How do we make comments to the FCC?   Email or written?
Addressee and
> >> address?
> >
> >
> >         Several suggested I summarize how to do this:
> >
> > 1.  Go to http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
> > 2.  Enter only 03-104 in Box 1 (Proceeding).
> > 3.  Complete all required boxes (2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12)
> > 4.  Attach your file in .doc, .pdf, .xls, etc in the first large
> > box and click "Sent Attached File to FCC".
> >
> > OR...and much easier for shorter comments,
> >
> > 5.  Type your comments directly into the bottom large box,
> > keeping <70 characters per line, and click "Send Brief
> > Comments to FCC".
> >
> > After 4. or 5., another screen should appear where you need to
> > click "Finish Transaction and Receive Confirmation".  If you
> > did everything correctly, you should then receive a confirmation
> > number on the next screen.  If you don't see the confirmation
> > number, your comments were not submitted correctly.
> >
> >         Your comments will likely not appear until the next
> > business day since it takes them awhile to process everything.
> > Please DO comment before the August 20 window closes!  This
> > could be the most important thing you will ever do to insure we
> > do not allow the FCC fill our bands with interference.  Let's
prevent
> > another Pandora's Box like the FCC gave us with Citizens Band!
> >
> >                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV
> >
> > P.S.  Much more info is available at ARRL's webpage:
> > http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/ including how to file.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
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"Wireless
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with
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> >
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>
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