Greetings. With the express approval of the Executive Committee, and with great thanks to Ed Hare, Kay Craigie and Dave Sumner, the attached was just filed electronically with the Enforcement Bureau and OET (see below). It is a combination of an interference complaint (active) involving a fixed HF Amateur station in southwestern Virginia, and as well a series of documented rule violations concerning IBEC BPL systems in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Indiana.

 

IBEC has misled ARRL and many others in their representations concerning full time Amateur band notching. Bottom line: they ain't doing it. This is the result. It is part of a coordinated, EC-supervised effort to continue our strategy on BPL and to obtain some reasonable rules. There is reason to believe that FCC is finally nearing completion of a further order in the BPL docket, so this filing is timely. Thanks to the EC for their oversight here.

 

73, Chris W3KD

Christopher D. Imlay
Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C.
14356 Cape May Road
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011
(301) 384-5525 telephone
(301) 384-6384 facsimile
W3KD@ARRL.ORG

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Imlay <w3kd@aol.com>
To: Kathy.Berthot@fcc.gov; Julius.Knapp@fcc.gov
Cc: n3kn@arrl.org; dsumner@arrl.org; ehare@arrl.org; k5ur@arrl.org
Sent: Wed, Dec 29, 2010 11:24 am
Subject: Broadband Over Power Line Systems; Interference Complaint and Compliance Issues, IBEC, Inc. BPL Systems