RE: [IRCA] BAD NEWS, DXers! BPL Approved By Reckless FCC

[Bruce Bacon <bwbacon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could be interesting. The FCC requires hams to use "the minimum power needed" to conduct a QSO. If conditions are so poor due to BPL as to require higher power just to hear and be heard, I can forsee a spiraling effect. Can you imagine every ham running 1500 watts CW just to get the signal heard over the BPL QRM? And if every ham needs to use maximum allowable power just to be heard, what will be the effects of all that RF on the BPL systems? BPL systems would crash, customer complaints would be rampant. What new regulations might be put into place AGAINST ham radio operators? Lower limits on power? Allowable/unallowable operating times?

 

For some, this might just be incentive enough to get a ham ticket and join the revolt.

 

73,

Bruce N7BWB

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May the legal "jamming" begin!
KF6GNI 73

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