GB> Fw: Re: [Boatanchors] Jim Haynie at Austin Summerfest

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/5/03 6:21:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
windy10605@juno.com writes:


> This is really serious stuff which will impact our hobby, guys. Please 
> got to the ARRL web site http://www.arrl.org and read some of the 
> studies, comments, etc.
> 

The most important things for each of us to do is to become informed enough 
to write meaningful Reply Comments to the FCC. Deadline is August 20. 

Whether you agree with ARRL's other policies or not, this is one place where 
the Hq staff has taken the lead. Is there any other amateur radio group that 
will do what Ed Hare, W1RFI, and his associates have done in the past few 
months?

>From what I've read in the past few weeks, the BPL idea is the brainchild of 
a few "dotcom" types who have sold it to utility folks as a means of making 
extra revenue. These folks have no real expertise in radio at all - not just 
technically, but from a regulatory standpoint. Their attitude is that Part 15 
levels are too low (!) and that the burden of proof should be on the licensed 
users, not the unlicensed interferers!

Comments can be filed online using the ECFS system. I filed comments a few 
weeks ago, and am developing reply comments. 

Nobody can guarantee that our protests will stop BPL. But we can guarantee 
that if we don't try, we will lose. 

73 de Jim, N2EY


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