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[J. Forster]

Subject:   [ForSale-Swap] BPL - Email the White House
      From: "Mike Besemer (KG8L)" <mwbesemer at cox.net>

As many of you know, President Bush addressed BPL in a speech made on 26
April.   (http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/04/27/1/?nc=1)

Now is the time to email the White House, offer your opinion, and ask for
Mr. Bush's withdrawal of BPL support.

To email the White House, use the following URL.

https://sawho14.eop.gov/PERSdata/intro.htm

Remember... Be specific, concise, credential yourself, offer technical
reasons for your position, and offer alternatives.  Also... Be polite... You
don't want the Secret Service or the FBI knocking on your door.

Below is a copy of what I sent forward.

<snip>


On 26 April 2004, you endorsed the development and deployment of a new
broadband delivery medium known as Broadband Over Powerline, or BPL.  While
I understand the need for exploration of new broadband delivery mediums, the
concept behind BPL is technically flawed and could represent a tremendous
danger to the security of our nation in the event of another 9/11 type
terrorist act.

BPL utilizes our existing power grid to deliver broadband data.  It
accomplishes this by inducing radio frequency energy onto the powerline.
This energy is then transmitted by the powerline from point to point.
Unfortunately, the radio frequency energy induced on these powerlines
represents a tremendous interference potential to licensed radio services
such as military, police, public safety, and amateur radio.  It is the very
design and concept of BPL that causes potential for interference; that is to
say, BPL, by its very nature, must radiate radio frequency energy.

My particular concern is for the amateur radio service.  I am a licensed
radio amateur, Call Sign KG8L.  I have held the highest class of license
available, Amateur Extra, for over 25 years and have considerable experience
in a variety of amateur radio operations.  Additionally, I am a 23-year
veteran of the U.S. Air Force with a background in radio communications and
radar.

Amateur radio operators have served the public for decades to provide
communications for public service and disaster relief when all other methods
of communications have failed.  I sincerely fear that in the event of
another major attack upon our country, or in the case of a natural disaster
or other event that impedes or disables our day-to-day communications
mediums (police radio, television, broadcast radio, cell phone, etc.) the
ability of amateur radio operators to provide critical backup communications
would be severely hampered or eliminated by interference caused by the
deployment of BPL technology.  Current FCC regulations calling for
mitigation of BPL interference are neither aggressive enough nor fully
technically deployable to the extent required to eliminate the interference
potential.

Other alternatives, such as Broadband Wireless Access, provide reasonable
alternatives to BPL and present no potential for interference with licensed
radio services and therefore no danger to the security of our nation.  I
urge you to reconsider your support for BPL and ask you to direct the
exploration of other methods of broadband delivery.

<snip>

73 to all,

Mike
KG8L

Re-posted from another list,
-John



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