[PPRAANet] FW: [BPLandHamRadio] Lompoc, California says no to BPL

[Al Penney]

Some good news...

    From Amateur Radio Newsline #1376

The City of Lompoc, California, has said NO to Broadband over 
Powerlines, and its a big win for ham radio. Amateur Radio Newsline's 
Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has been monitoring the situation and has the 
details:
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Paul Andreasen, K1JAN, said it this way -- quote: "Well, we won ONE 
at least!"

What Andreasen is referring to was a plan by Lompoc city leaders to 
deploy Broadband over Powerlines in that city and the work of the ham 
community to head it off. 

Andreasen is the ARRL Technical Coordinator for the Santa Barbara 
Section and a ARRL Technical Advisor for the League's Southwestern 
Division. And he was one of the organizers of the movement to stop 
the deployment of B-P-L in the Lompoc area. 

In an e-mail, Andreasen says that his group sprang into action when 
they learned of plans to permit powerline broadband. He presented 
city leaders with several studies and some facts on interference 
effects to and from other licensed RF users. 
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Andreasen: "I know the mayor so I stopped in one day and asked him. 
He said yes they were and I introduced him to some of the facts of 
radiation not only causing problems with public communications, the 
CHP, Amateur Radio, etc., but about it also causing problems with the 
BPL system (itself).
--

Andreasen: "I know the mayor so I stopped in one day and asked him. 
He said yes they were and I introduced him to some of the facts of 
radiation not only causing problems with public communications, the 
CHP, Amateur Radio, etc., but about it also causing problems with the 
BPL system (itself). 
--

Meantime, Eric Lemmon, WB6FLY, made the California Highway Patrol 
aware of their efforts. The statewide C-H-P radio system operates on 
low-band F-M which falls right smack in the middle of the spectrum 
used by B-P-L.

And then they wait until December 17th for the newspapers to report 
the results of their City Council vote on the matter. The good news: 
No Broadband Over Powerlines in Lompoc. Instead, the City Council 
approved a rival, non radiating system that uses fiber optic 
technology. 

But that's not all. The company that did the study for the planners 
was told by the City Administrator not to entertain any radiating 
methodologies at all. All because ham radio operators spoke up and 
provided proof that B-P-L could be hazardous to the regions R-F 
environment.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, reporting.
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Another quote from Paul Andreasen, K1JAN, kind of sums it up. "We not 
only win one, but a bureaucracy kept it's word!" (K1JAN, W6YN)



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