[Park] SWLs and BPL

[Dave Haney]

>From the ARRL website:


SWLs may file BPL interference complaints: FCC Part 15 rules prohibit
interference to licensed services from unlicensed devices. This means that,
with limited exceptions, short-wave listeners (SWLs) may file formal
complaints if broadband over power line (BPL) signals interfere with their
reception. "There is no doubt that international broadcast listeners have
standing to complain about interference to the reception of foreign
broadcast signals," says ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD. "One does
not have to be a licensee of a transmitter in order to receive harmful
interference from a United States-based RF source and have standing to
complain about it." Listeners to international short-wave broadcasts
originating in the US, Imlay explains, do not have standing to complain,
however, because they are not the target audience for such broadcasts. Imlay
says that while FCC and court cases involving standing to file are complex,
"the cases are clear that the allegation of suffering actual electromagnetic
interference to reception of a broadcast service, even one generated
internationally, from a domestic RF source, is sufficient in every case to
demonstrate standing to file a complaint." International Telecommunication
Union Radio Regulations require member nations to "take all practicable and
necessary steps to ensure that the operation of electrical apparatus or
installations of any kind, including power and telecommunication
distribution networks, but excluding equipment used for industrial,
scientific and medical applications, does not cause harmful interference to
a radiocommunication service."--Gary Pearce, KN4AQ


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