[IRCA] Fwd: [ASWLC] SWL] BPL Spectrum
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[IRCA] Fwd: [ASWLC] SWL] BPL Spectrum

Here's some information on BPL for those in IRCA who are Hams or have interests in the shrotwave listening hobby.
 
73, Eric (N0UIH)
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From: "Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Philip Atchley" <beaconeer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <swl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 What follows is current. You can read about it on the ARRL web site.
>
> ARLB009 League files opposition to BPL reconsideration petitions
>
> The ARRL has filed an Opposition to three petitions for
> reconsideration in the broadband over power line (BPL) proceeding,
> ET Docket 04-37. The League's filing targets points raised in
> reconsideration petitions from Current Technologies LLC, the United
> Power Line Council (UPLC) and Amperion Inc. Each seeks
> reconsideration of certain aspects of the Report and Order (R&O) the
> FCC adopted last October, spelling out new Part 15 rules to govern
> BPL deployment. In its Opposition, the ARRL says the FCC should not
> eliminate its requirement that BPL providers give 30 days' advance
> notice of service initiation, as Current, UPLC and Amperion have
> requested.
>
> ''Grant of the petitioners' request to eliminate the 30-day advance
> notice requirement would not only be antithetical to the
> Commission's goal of providing competitive, affordable and efficient
> broadband access;'' the ARRL said, ''it would also eliminate even
> the most minimal means for Amateur Radio licensees to be able to
> identify and contact the source of harmful BPL interference when it
> occurs.''
>
> Keeping the 30-day notification period in place, the ARRL argued,
> offers radio amateurs a chance to determine baseline ambient noise
> levels ahead of a BPL deployment and to be able to identify
> interference when it occurs and the extent to which the HF and
> low-VHF operating environment is degraded.
>
> The ARRL also took issue with requests by Current and UPLC either to
> extend the transition period for certification of BPL equipment
> made, marketed or installed on or after July 7, 2006, or to drop it
> altogether. Either approach, the League contended, ''is tantamount
> to an abdication of any requirement to implement any of the
> admittedly inadequate interference mitigation requirements in the
> Report and Order at all.''
>
> As the rule is written, the League's Opposition points out, ''no BPL
> system placed in operation ever has to come into compliance with the
> interference requirements.'' The ARRL maintains that the FCC erred
> in its R&O by permitting the installation and operation of
> non-compliant equipment after the R&O's effective date.
>
> The League Opposition also commented that the FCC ''has not adopted
> any rules that will protect licensees in the Amateur Service from
> interference from BPL systems.''
>
> In its own Petition for Reconsideration in February, the ARRL asked
> the FCC to ''reconsider, rescind and restudy'' the October BPL R&O,
> calling the FCC's action to permit BPL ''a gross policy mistake.''
> NNNN
>
>
>
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> From: Philip Atchley <beaconeer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: swl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SWL] BPL Spectrum
> Date: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:52 PM
>
> Hi,
>
> Here's something that I thought the folks here might like to see as I
hadn't
> seen the actual BPL spectrum posted before.  This taken from a posted on
> QRZ.COM.  Do you use/listen in any of these frequency bands?  Yep, me too!
>
> FCC-AUTHORIZED BPL
> Total BPL Spectrum: 76.59MHz
> BPL Transmitting Bands for USA
> 1.705MHz to 2.850MHz (160m)
> 3.025MHz to 3.400MHz
> 3.500MHz to 4.650MHz (80m)
> 4.700MHz to 5.450MHz (60m)
> 5.680MHz to 6.525MHz
> 6.685MHz to 8.815MHz (40m)
> 8.965MHz to 10.005MHz
> 10.100MHz to 11.275MHz (30m)
> 11.400MHz to 13.260MHz
> 13.360MHz to 17.900MHz (20m)
> 17.970MHz to 21.924MHz (17m, 15m)
> 22.000MHz to 74.800MHz (12m, 10m, 6m)
> 75.200MHz to 80.000MHz
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
> http://www.geocities.com/ko6bb/
> Merced, Central California, 37.3N  120.48W  CM97sh
>
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