Greetings. Just now, I filed the attached Petition. This was discussed with the Board in July as a strategy, and is a followup to a meeting with OET staff in late July. FCC was lukewarm on our proposal to permit BPL with three additional rules added: (1) HF would not be used on medium voltage power lines; (2) Amateur bands would not be used at all (except that we have carved out an exception for the 5 MHz band, which is now NOT notched by the current generation HomePlug standard, used by the benign Motorola and Current Technologies systems on low voltage lines and in-house lines); and (3) the FCC would require use of a distance extrapolation of 20 dB per decade of distance, not the present 40 dB. These conditions would allow us to claim victory, and would require some relatively minor reconfiguration of the presently deployed systems such as Amperion, Mitsubishi, Main.net and Ambient (the ones that cause interference to Amateur Radio). FCC may not adopt any of these, but this filing is our last clear chance to avoid a protracted and expensive court appeal, and would relieve FCC of some burden. They clearly would like our Petition for Reconsideration to go away. This is a PDF file. Anyone with any problem, let me know and we can send a Word file of the Petition, or a hard copy. 73, Chris W3KD