NASWA Journal Columns · 2005 · September

Technical Topics, September 2005

Last Updated on October 11, 2005 by Ralph Brandi

###BPL: Some Good News?

Over the past couple of years this column has reported on NASWA’s effort to head off interference from Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology to shortwave reception. NASWA filed comments with the FCC pointing out the danger that this technology posed for the shortwave broadcast listener. Most of NASWA’s recommendations to the FCC were ignored as the Commission charged ahead with its preconceived conclusion that BPL was the answer to increasing competition in the broadband access universe.

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Kim’s Column, September 2005

Last Updated on October 3, 2005 by Ralph Brandi

###Shortwave as the failsafe

First, the government of Cote d’Ivoire evicted Radio France International was evicted from its FM frequencies because of its reporting of domestic Ivorian news. Then it managed to “interrupt” RFI on the Canal Satellite Horizons DTH service, which is received in about 25,000 households in the country. And, so, RFI has decided to increase–actually, to restore–its shortwave output to Africa.

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