Second Report & Order on Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) released

[Robert Stratton]

"In today’s Second Report and Order, the commission said the resulting cycle of comments did not “warrant any changes to the emissions standards or the extrapolation factor,” but they were making “several refinements” anyway. 

The SR&O modifies the rules “to increase the required notch filtering capability for systems operating below 30 MHz from 20 to 25 dB; establish a new alternative procedure for determining site-specific extrapolation factors...; and adopts a definition for the ‘slant-range distance’ used in the BPL measurement guidelines to further clarify its application.” Slant-range refers to the diagonal distance of a measurement device to a BPL transmitter mounted at the top of a power pole. "

http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/125526

The Report & Order may be found at:
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db1024/FCC-11-160A1.pdf

--Bob S.