[PPRAANet] FW: [BPLandHamRadio] DERA (Disaster Emergency Response Association) - comments

[Al Penney]

Hi everyone,

Below please find extracts from a report on BPL submitted to the FCC by the
Disaster Emergency Response Association (DERA).  It has taken a while, but
it looks like users of the HF and low VHF spectrum have finally realized
what Amateurs saw from the start - BPL is a threat.

73
Al VO1NO / W0

Extracts below;

The Director of Information Technology of the Disaster Emergency
Response Association, Inc. (DERA), a nonprofit charitable service,
educational, and professional organization, respectfully requests the
Federal Communications Commission to accept and consider the attached
reply comments to the Notice of Inquiry published in the Federal
Register on May 23, 2003 (68 FR 28182-28186) despite our lateness.

While the FCC gave the Public and other interested parties legally
sufficient notice in this matter, many affected parties, including
DERA, did not initially understand the far-reaching, damaging and
irreversible impact this proposal would have. The matters being
considered by the Commission and our comments regarding them are of
such fundamental, immediate and lasting importance to public safety
and national welfare that consideration of these late comments is
warranted in the public interest despite their being filed after the
Commission's announced deadline for reply comments.

IF BPL SYSTEMS BECOME OPERATIONAL AS PROPOSED, THERE
WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE INTERFERENCE TO AND DISRUPTION OF HIGH
FREQUENCY RADIO SYSTEMS CRITICAL TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND WELFARE
THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA.

DERA RESPECTFULLY ADVISES THE FCC AGAINST ANY FORM OF "FAST-TRACK"
APPROVAL OF BPL SYSTEMS AND REQUESTS THAT THE FCC ALLOW FOR AN
EXTENDED PERIOD OF FULL AND OPEN TECHNICAL DISCUSSION, COMPREHENSIVE
RESEARCH, PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, AND THOROUGH TECHNICAL
ASSESSMENT PRIOR TO ANY COMMISSION DECISION REGARDING BPL. DERA
RESPECTFULLY SUGGESTS THAT THE FCC REQUIRE ANY AND ALL FIELD TESTS OF
BPL SYSTEMS TO BE CONDUCTED UNDER THE OVERSIGHT AND GUIDANCE
OF AN ACCREDITED AND UNBIASED ACADEMIC INSTITUTION, WHICH WILL
ANALYZE AND REPORT FULL AND COMPLETE TECHNICAL FINDINGS ABOUT BPL TO
THE FCC AS A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD.




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