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04-26-2008, 11:45 AM
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The ARRL has spent nearly a year (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/84599) battling the FCC regarding its failure to follow guidelines regarding BPL interference. The U.S. Court of Appeals reached a decision (http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/04/25/10064/?nc=1) on the matter yesterday, agreeing with the ARRL on a couple of its major points. In response to the decision, ARRL s General Counsel issued a statement saying: "It is obvious that the FCC was overzealous in its advocacy of BPL, and that resulted in a rather blatant cover-up of the technical facts surrounding its interference potential. Both BPL and Amateur Radio would be better off had the FCC dealt with the interference potential in an honest and forthright manner at the outset. Now there is an opportunity to finally establish some rules that will allow BPL to proceed, if it can in configurations that don't expose licensed radio services to preclusive interference in the HF bands."
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Court-Agrees-with-ARRL-in-FCC-BPL-Issue-93923)
The ARRL has spent nearly a year (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/84599) battling the FCC regarding its failure to follow guidelines regarding BPL interference. The U.S. Court of Appeals reached a decision (http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/04/25/10064/?nc=1) on the matter yesterday, agreeing with the ARRL on a couple of its major points. In response to the decision, ARRL s General Counsel issued a statement saying: "It is obvious that the FCC was overzealous in its advocacy of BPL, and that resulted in a rather blatant cover-up of the technical facts surrounding its interference potential. Both BPL and Amateur Radio would be better off had the FCC dealt with the interference potential in an honest and forthright manner at the outset. Now there is an opportunity to finally establish some rules that will allow BPL to proceed, if it can in configurations that don't expose licensed radio services to preclusive interference in the HF bands."
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Court-Agrees-with-ARRL-in-FCC-BPL-Issue-93923)