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BPL Info Central
Welcome to BPL Info Central, presented by CQ Communications, publishers of CQ, CQ VHF and Popular Communications magazines. This site is your resource for facts, background and tips on dealing with the interference threat posed to hams, shortwave listeners, CBers and other HF/VHF spectrum users by Broadband over Power Lines (BPL). The following links should help you in crafting comments for the FCC &/or speaking knowledgeably about BPL to your club, municipal officials or local news media.
- Rich Moseson, W2VU, Editor, CQ Amateur Radio - Joe Lynch, N6CL, Editor, CQ VHF - Harold Ort, N2RLL / SSB-596, Editor, Popular Communications
“BPL Primer: How Do I Know What I’m Hearing?” – by Gary Pearce, KN4AQ (from May, 2004, CQ) [PDF of article]
“The BPL Dilemma” (more detailed than the “BPL Primer”) – by Gary Pearce, KN4AQ (from Spring, 2004, CQ VHF) [PDF of article]
Sample of BPL interference – recorded by Gary Pearce, KN4AQ
Sample of BPL interference (broadband)– courtesy ARRL Sample of BPL interference (dialup)– courtesy ARRL
The FCC’s BPL Notice of Proposed Rule Making – ET Docket 04-37 (38 pages long) (NOTES: 1- Comment deadline is May 3, 2004; The FCC’s original Notice of Inquiry in this matter was designated ET Docket 03-104. 2- The FCC asks that all comments be filed using the NPRM docket number, ET Docket 04-37)
CQ Communications FCC Comments on BPL Rule Making Proposal
K6DGW’s Guide to Writing Comments – by Fred Jensen, K6DGW, as appeared in Sierra Signals newsletter; reprinted with permission in May 2004 CQ.
Link to FCC Electronic Comment Upload page (Select “Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) - Docket 04-37”)
In late March, the Wall Street Journal ran a front page article on BPL and ham radio, in which it suggested that hams were a “vocal but shrinking group” of “quirky” old men who were standing in the way of advancing technology by opposing BPL. Both CQ VHF editor Joe Lynch, N6CL, and CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, wrote letters to the editor and to reporter Ken Brown, responding to both the tone of the article and the many inaccuracies it contained. Links to their letters are below:
N6CL letter: “The Quirky Bunch”
W2VU letter: Response to Journal “Power Play”
Additional material:
BPL “Talking Points,” and Sample Letter to the Editor, written by W2VU for the ARRL Public Relations Committee, and used here by permission.
NTIA Report Finds Significant BPL Interference
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