In a message dated 10/1/2004 11:22:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, n3kn@comcast.net writes:

Dick's message came in just as I was about to write one saying the same thing. If BPL is as benign as its proponents claim and the interference reports we've gathered are such baloney, then why do government operations need protection? Why should interference that doesn't exist pose a problem to anybody?

Dick and Kay have an especially compelling argument, given that ham stations are in close geographic proximity in residential areas to overhead power lines. By sharp contrast, the government stations (by NTIA's own characterization several years ago) are principally located away from major population centers where presumably they would NOT be near overhead power lines, or at least not grids of residential power lines. Chris