[CVCC] Fw: ARLB012 Resolution Calls on FCC To Evaluate BPL Interference, Review Rules

[Ed Moore]

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Subject: ARLB012 Resolution Calls on FCC To Evaluate BPL Interference,
Review Rules


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> ARLB012 Resolution Calls on FCC To Evaluate BPL Interference,
> Review Rules
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> ARRL Bulletin 12  ARLB012
> From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington CT  April 29, 2005
> To all radio amateurs
>
> SB QST ARL ARLB012
> ARLB012 Resolution Calls on FCC To Evaluate BPL Interference,
> Review Rules
>
> Rep Michael Ross, WD5DVR, of Arkansas, has introduced a resolution
> in the US House of Representatives calling on the FCC to "conduct a
> full and complete analysis" of radio interference from broadband
> over power line (BPL). The resolution, H. Res 230, says the
> Commission should comprehensively evaluate BPL's interference
> potential incorporating "extensive public review and comment,"
> and--in light of that analysis--to "reconsider and review" its new
> BPL rules, adopted last October. If approved by the full House, the
> non-binding resolution, introduced April 21, would express the
> requests as "the sense of the House of Representatives."
>
> "We are grateful to Congressman Ross and his staff for taking a
> leadership position in recognizing that the BPL interference issue
> deserves more careful consideration than the FCC was willing to give
> it under former Chairman Powell," said ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ.
> The resolution has been referred to the House Committee on Energy
> and Commerce, on which Ross serves.
>
> The resolution's prime focus is on BPL's potential to disrupt
> critical public safety radiocommunication. It cites National
> Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) studies
> that "have determined that broadband over power line creates a 'high
> risk' of radio wave interference, and that harmful interference to
> public safety mobile radio receivers can be expected at distances of
> 75 meters from the power line where broadband over power line is in
> operation, and at distances of up to 460 meters from fixed stations,
> such as VHF police or fire dispatch communications facilities."
>
> The resolution notes that the same NTIA study determined that BPL
> interference to aeronautical and airline travel communications
> "could be expected at distances up to 40 kilometers from the center
> of the broadband over power line system, and that interference to
> outer marker beacons for airline instrument landing systems could be
> expected at great distances as well."
>
> Many public safety agencies and support services, including
> emergency medical services, fire, and law enforcement, utilize
> Low-Band VHF (30-50 MHz), the resolution points out. According to
> the resolution, at least 13 states--California, Connecticut,
> Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North
> Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming--use
> the band for state police operations. It's the primary public safety
> radio band in nine states.
>
> The resolution further notes that the Association of Public Safety
> Communications Officials Inc (APCO), and the National Public Safety
> Telecommunications Council (NPSTC), have urged the FCC to withhold
> final action in the BPL proceeding for at least a year, pending a
> "conclusive determination" of BPL's potential to interfere with
> public safety and other licensed radio systems operating below 80
> MHz. It also cites comments filed by the Missouri State Highway
> Patrol, which uses a statewide radio system with more than 1400
> Low-Band VHF users. The Missouri State Highway Patrol commented that
> the overall effect of BPL implementation would be "a potentially
> significant increase in interference to the mission of critical
> public safety communications," the resolution says.
>
> The resolution recounts that the FCC has struggled for years to
> resolve widespread harmful radio interference to first responders on
> 800 MHz and "should not have proceeded with introduction of a
> technology which appears to have substantial potential to cause
> destructive interference to police, fire, emergency medical
> services, and other public safety radio systems" without first
> conducting a comprehensive evaluation.
>
> A copy of HRes 230 is available on the ARRL Web site in .PDF format
> at,
> http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/filings/hres230/HRes230.pdf.
> See the ARRL Web site, http://www.arrl.org, for more information.
> NNNN
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