The following and the attachment are self-explanatory. If you have had a chance to review my memo of last week on the subject of BPL, this is a very quick rebuttal to UTC's filing dated May 4, 2011. Because the Commissioners have a BPL draft from OET on circulation, and because it appeared to us unpleasantly coincidental that the UTC filing (weak though it is) was submitted about a month or so prior to the OET draft order being released to the Commissioners, Ed Hare and I believe that a rebuttal was necessary. This is that rebuttal. Ed Hare authored most of the filing, as you will see, and since it was half argument and half technical showing, I just incorporated it into a letter over my signature. But Ed did his usual spectacular job in short order. No less spectacular was the Executive Committee's response to my short-fuse request for review and approval of the document. Thanks to all of the EC members for a quick revew and approval of this, and especially to President Craigie, EVP Sumner, VP Frahm, and Director Frenaye for helpful edits and typo-fixing. Now let's see what the level of skullduggery is at FCC these days. We will likely know very soon. This is probably the last filing we will make on this, but it remains to be seen whether time will permit Ed Hare and I to make a visit to the Chairman's office and OET about this before an Order is released. That event was the last of the advocacy plan on BPL approved by the EC much earlier in this proceeding. Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C. 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD@ARRL.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Chris Imlay <w3kd@aol.com> To: Julius.Knapp@fcc.gov; Alan.Stillwell@fcc.gov; Anh.Wride@fcc.gov; Julius.Genachowski@fcc.gov; Michael.Copps@fcc.gov; Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov; Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov Cc: dsumner@arrl.org; n3kn@arrl.org; ehare@arrl.org; brett.kilbourne@utc.org Sent: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 9:33 am Subject: Broadband Over Power Line Systems; ET Docket 04-37; Ex Parte Submission of ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio Greetings. Attached herewith please find a courtesy copy of a Written ex parte submission of ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio, in ET Docket 04-37. This was just filed in the ECFS in this docket proceeding. This is submitted in response to a two-page filing dated May 4, 2011 by UTC, the Utilities Telecom Council in this Docket. ARRL's submission pertains to the notching of Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) systems on Amateur Radio allocations in order to reduce the substantial interference potential of BPL to geographically proximate Amateur Radio stations. Kindly address any inquiries concerning this matter to the undersigned, General Counsel for ARRL. Kind regards, Chris Imlay Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C. 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD@ARRL.ORG