[Lowfer] Broadband over Power Line (BPL); Filing Comments to FCC

[Tim Brannon]

Tonight I was forwarded a post on QRZ.com about filing your comments =
regarding Broadband over Powerline.  In an effort to encourage everyone =
here to add your comments, I thought I'd share the comments I filed =
tonight:

  "This proposal poses a grave threat to all of us who use HF radio =
communications, including government and public safety users. In 2003, =
there are multiple options for providing broadband Internet access to =
the vast majority of potential users with better reliability and much =
higher data rates than what BPL can offer. Launching BPL is a totally =
un-necessary risk.=20
    Also, the FCC recently rejected a petition for an amateur allocation =
at 136 kHz on the basis that operation would risk interference to the =
electric utility companies relying on Power Line Communications (PLCs) =
for power grid-control signaling. Proceding with BPL totally contradicts =
this recent ruling."

Hopefully I'm not just degrading the signal to "noise" ratio on this at =
the FCC, but I wanted to contribute something. This sounds just as =
ominous for us at LF as well.

The link to the FCC Electronic filing system is =
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/ecfs_alt.html

The original post on QRZ.com is =
http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=3DST&f=3D3&t=3D36781

73,
Tim Brannon
KF5CQ

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