There is some editorial fodder in the document. The Commission congratulates itself on having waited so long to take enforcement action against IBEC that IBEC went out of business in the meantime, rendering our interference complaint moot. It also notes that non-existent BPL systems listed in the UTC database cannot be sources of harmful interference, which is true enough -- but the FCC repeatedly has used UTC's bogus information about the extent of BPL deployment to tout the technology. Dave -----Original Message----- From: arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Tom Frenaye Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:05 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:21670] Re: FCC Denies ARRL BPL Reconsideration Petition At 11:55 AM 4/17/2013, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ wrote:
It comes as no surprise but as something of a disappointment that in the attached document the FCC has denied in all respects our December 20, 2011 petition for reconsideration of certain of its BPL decisions.
George Carlin's seven famous words (and a few others) come to mind. Maybe we can use this FCC response as an example in our follow up with Congress about obstacles to Amateur Radio, and to urge Congress to authorize some additional technical expertise in the FCC instead of lawyers. Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444 _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org http://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv