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Title: BPL Study Bill Introduced by Ham Congressman Post by: Tom WA3KLR on February 01, 2007, 04:27:53 PM From Interference Technology’s on-line “EMC News” : AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
Congressman Introduces Legislation to Study BPL Interference Proposed legislation would have the 110th Congress call on the Federal Communications Commission to study the interference potential of broadband over power line (BPL) technology and to report its findings back to Congress. The bill was introduced on January 18, 2007 by U.S. Rep. Mike Ross (D-AK), one of two radio amateurs serving in the House of Representatives. The bill calls for the FCC to conduct “a comprehensive BPL service study leading to improved rules to prevent interference.” If the measure is adopted by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, the FCC would have to undertake a study of BPL’s interference potential with 90 days of enactment and report to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. HR 462, the "Emergency Amateur Radio Interference Protection Act of 2007” would require the FCC to address several technical facets, including variations in BPL emission field strength with distance from power lines and a technical justification for using a particular extrapolation factor when making measurements. The Commission would also have to investigate the degree of notching necessary “to protect the reliability of mobile radio communications”—as well as provide technical justification for using a particular distance extrapolation factor when making measurements. Read the text of HR 462 online at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.462: |