[PVRCNC] Just say NO to BPL

[Jim Jordan K4QPL]

The ARRL web site has good info on this, but I would remind everyone that it
doesn't take but a couple minutes to send a comment, and get your family and
friends who can easily understand the analogy to other environmental
pollution to do the same, by clicking on the FCC web site:

 http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/ecfs/Upload/

Select the Broadband over Power Line (Docket 03-104) option and then try
pasting this or something like it in your own words:

" I oppose the proposed rule changes regarding Part 15 relating to Broadband
over Power Line devices. The radio spectrum is a national resource and
should be protected from the pollution which BPL will inevitably cause. Once
lost, the present low ambient high frequency RF background can never be
regained. The burden should not be shifted to a user to locate, report and
demand locale-specific reductions in interference from the BPL operator. HF
signal levels presently allowed under Part 15, and generally transmitted for
short periods, are not adequate to protect against BPL emissions which occur
on a 24/7 basis. There is no compelling public need to add another broadband
system which has such negative side effects for short-wave broadcast
listeners as well as amateur radio operators and other licensed users of the
high frequency spectrum. I oppose all BPL operations, but at the very least
the maximum RF emissions by BPL operators should be greatly reduced below
present Part 15 permissible levels. "

Thanks. Every little bit helps. When I think of all the QRP DX I have
worked, I shudder to think how a BPL system miles away from my QTH could
easily blank these <S1 signals. And once out, there's no way the genie can
be put back in the bottle.

73,
Jim, K4QPL