Ed Hare, Laboratory Manager, ARRL

Ed Hare is the Laboratory Manager of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), an organization made up of around 160,000 amateur radio operators in the U.S. He's also the Chairman of that group's Ad Hoc BPL Working Group.

Mr. Hare spoke today with Broadband over Power Line World about a wide range of technical and administrative issues involved in the generation and mitigation of radio frequency (RF) interference from broadband over powerline (BPL) installations.

Mr. Hare struck a concerned-but-conciliatory tone, saying that the ARRL "has the doors wide open" to cooperation with the BPL industry regarding the resolution of interference issues involving the two technologies.

He said that past cooperative efforts between ARRL and purveyors of other broadband technologies, including DSL, cable, and HomePlug® (BPL within a building) have resulted in favorable outcomes, and called for finding "some common ground in a process that's certainly been more adversarial than I'd like to see it be."

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