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| Emergency Services
As existing laws are written, if a BPL deployment interferes with local emergency service communications, the impacted party has little recourse. So while hams won a battle, the FCC still left a mess in its wake. While hams were on the forefront of the fight, this was an issue that was often overlooked. Fire and police departments operating in the 30 to 50MHz band were just as susceptible to BPL interference as hams. A police cruiser in the outer fringes of their radio coverage area could just as easily have had their ability to receive HQ wiped out as a ham trying to monitor a weak signal. The only problem was the FCC disregarded the emergency service's comments just like the ARRL's.
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