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Subj: AMSAT comments on BPL debate
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 250.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. September 7, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-250.04
AMSAT filed Comments with the FCC in July and Reply Comments in August,
opposing proposals to allow Broadband over Power Line (BPL) systems. A
short excerpt of those comments follow.
AMSAT agrees with ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio ("ARRL"),
that BPL is a Pandora's Box of unprecedented proportions. Once deployed, the
consumer's expectations will be such as to preclude termination of the
service, and interference problems, both to and from BPL, will inevitably be
both widespread and impossible as a practical matter to rectify. The amateur
and amateur-satellite services cannot be protected from interference from
BPL, and BPL cannot be protected from interference from HF and VHF amateur
radio stations. The rules must insure that BPL is not permitted to operate
in or near any amateur radio allocation, and if BPL is permitted at all, any
changes in amateur radio allocations must immediately trigger retroactive
modifications to BPL facilities to delete any use of amateur radio
frequencies. In addition, spurious emissions from BPL facilities must be
substantially attenuated below current Part 15 spurious emission levels.
Therefore, the foregoing considered, AMSAT joins ARRL in respectfully
requesting that the Commission take no steps to permit access or in-building
BPL at HF or VHF at this time.
The complete text of all AMSAT FCC filings are posted at
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/amsat-na/filings/index.html
[ANS thanks Perry, W3PK, for the above information]
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