In a telephone conversation this afternoon, Alan Shark agreed to back away from the "no empirical evidence" claim. He claimed that he was relying on presentations made to him by "honorable people" that there was no "harmful interference." I faxed him five examples of complaints of harmful interference. He also agreed in principle to getting together with us at a BPL site, preferably Manassas because it's nearby, so we can show him what we're concerned about. He also wants to establish a mechanism for technical information exchange, which I have suggested to him would be timely after the demonstration.

It remains to be seen, of course, whether the PLCA Web site will be updated to reflect this, and whether he will send a retraction to the WSJ. I doubt the latter, although I will insist on the former if he hasn't taken care of it by early next week.

Dave