[South Florida DX Association] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!

Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:28:56 -0400

I am forwarding this thread from another list:
-Bill W2CQ

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73,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of n3drk
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 2:29 PM
> To: drake; kenwood; dx4win
> Subject: [Drake] Fw: [CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!
>
>
> Everyone,
>      should click on these links and watch these videos from
> the BPL in
> Europe. Forward them to our friend in Washington, Miss
> Kathleen Abernathy.
>
> john
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin Hengemuehle" <[email protected]>
> To: "n3drk" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Low
> Power Amateur
> Radio Discussion" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!
>
>
> > Hello John and others,
> >
> > regarding the current BPL discussions you might well be
> interested to
> > visit
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/
> >
> > where whp067 (meaning "White Paper" no 67) has just appeared
> > providing a hell lot of the infos regarding the impacts BPL (or PLT
> > or PLC as it is called in Europe) does have on HF reception in a
> > typcal suburban or downtown area. The above web site also provides a
> > bulk of audio files taken within such an area where BPL was / is in
> > use. While the experiments were made using HF broadcast band
> > reception (with those really big signals there...) it is all to easy
> > and obvious what that would mean for any ham band reception
> ( you can
> > bet it's gonna be damn worse...)
> >
> > Also, I put some files (both audio and video ones) on my web site at
> >
> > http://www.qsl.net/dl5qe
> >
> > regarding BPL (PLC, PLT) interferences.
> >
> > It should be well alarming everybody if an international and well
> > known broadcaster like the British BBC sees the necessity to address
> > a broader public to inform about the detrimental interferences that
> > (might?!) be our possible future as HF users. If the "Megawatt Boys"
> > are afraid enough (like BBC), we as hams should be much more afraid
> > anyhow...
> >
> > 73 de Martin, DL5QE
> >
> >
> > On 25 Sep 2003 at 15:39, n3drk wrote:
> >
> > From:           "n3drk" <[email protected]>
> > To:             <[email protected]>,
> >   "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" <[email protected]>
> > Subject:        [CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!
> > Date sent:      Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:39:50 -0400
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > john