Dec 20, 2004

The ARRL has once again asked the FCC to shut down a BPL field trial now
under way in Briarcliff Manor, New York. It's also asked the Commission to
withdraw the system's Part 5 Experimental authorization. After the League's
first shutdown request in October, the chief engineer of Ambient
Corporation, which provided the pilot project's BPL hardware, suggested that
Amateur Radio interference complaints had been addressed through improved
software and notching performance. Not so, says a December 17 letter to the
FCC from ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD. Writing on the League's
behalf, Imlay contends that the FCC is not sticking to its commitment to
prevent interference to Amateur Radio from BPL systems and to enforcement
where interference occurs.

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