[Elecraft] Fw: FCC's Attitude toward BPL!

[n3drk]

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From: "n3drk" <n3drk@triad.rr.com>
To: <cw@mailman.qth.net>; "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion"
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Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: FCC's Attitude toward BPL!


> Attention All Amateurs...
>  ARRL Rebukes FCC Commissioner's BPL-Related "Broadband Nirvana" Remarks
> (Sep 25, 2003) -- The ARRL has strongly objected to FCC Commissioner
> Kathleen Q. Abernathy's suggestion that Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
> technology will contribute to what she described as "broadband Nirvana."
> Addressing the United Powerline Council's annual conference September 22
in
> Arlington, Virginia, Abernathy expressed unabashed enthusiasm for BPL and
> recommended a combination of regulatory restraint and the elimination or
> substantial modification of existing rules as steps along the "path to
> Enlightenment." In a terse response faxed today on behalf of the League's
> 155,000 members, ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, asserted
> that Abernathy overlooked some significant issues in her Nirvana analogy.
>
>
> YOU CAN EMAIL MISS ABERNATHY AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS AND I URGE EVERYONE
TO
> DO SO.
>
> kabernat@fcc.gov <kabernat@fcc.gov>
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> john
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