ARRL Unhappy with Manassas BPL Report
Another fight regarding the Manassas BPL system in Virginia is underway. The ARRL calls a report “flawed”, and makes an inquiry to the FCC.
‘ “ARRL objects to the report because it is based on improper engineering practice and contrary to the instructions provided by your office in your letter dated June 16, 2006,” ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, wrote FCC Spectrum Enforcement Division Chief Joseph Casey on August 2. In June, Casey had ordered the City of Manassas and BPL provider COMTek to investigate complaints from several Manassas radio amateurs of BPL interference to their mobile operations and report back to the Commission on their findings. The League, and local amateurs, contend the BPL system is still causing harmful interference to Amateur Radio operations, despite the clean bill of health the engineering report purports to present.’
There are disputes as to how attenuation at ham frequencies was measured and peak signal bands. It seems this BPL dispute with members ham radio operators has a way to go yet.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
[...] ‘The main advantage of BPL, according to In-Stat analyst Joyce Putscher, is the fact that the availability of coaxial or twisted-pair connections can be limited. In many countries, specifically those in Europe and Asia, cable television is far less common than it is in the United States, and households in those countries tend to have fewer telephone jacks. BPL could consequently facilitate more-widespread broadband Internet connectivity in those markets. [...]