Ed Hare went to Manassas yesterday and says he observed "S9 +20 dB" interference on 40 meters and other frequencies. He's going back with witnesses. Dave -----Original Message----- From: w3kd@aol.com [mailto:w3kd@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 3:51 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:15592] BPL at Briarcliff Manor, NY Greetings. One small toss of a bone to us is attached. I received today two copies, one certified and one not, of the attached, somewhat confusing request from FCC's Enforcement Bureau to Ambient Corporation. Ambient operates a dirty BPL system in Briarcliff Manor, NY that Ed Hare has measured numerous times in the BPLmobile. This is little more than a request for measurement data, if any exists which has not yet been shredded by Ambient. This BPL facility is operating pursuant to a Part 5 experimental license but has not filed a complete response to the conditions of the authorization. Nor has it responded to an FCC March 16, 2007 letter requesting compliance information. It had 30 days to respond to that, but failed. Ambient is a trash operator, and this letter is a good thing. But let's put it in perspective. FCC says they are investigating our complaint dated March 29, 2006, well more than a year ago. And the investigation is just beginning. Why so long? Perhaps FCC wanted to make sure that no BPL installations were deterred by unnecessary interference enforcement. Still, one hopes that there is presently some interference left up there, since no other complaints of BPL interference are active at the moment. It would be unfortunate if nothing was left of the interference we have barked about for so long now. 73, Chris W3KD _____ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000437> AOL.com.