With Billions of dollars in potential sales at stake, whats a few million buying such publicity and selling the public yet another pig in a poke complete with a free bottle of snake oil to go with it. As someone pointed out last week, we've been through this with the tobacco industry. Same "dont bother the public with facts" philosophy. -73- Steve, W2ML -----Original Message----- From: W5JBP@aol.com [mailto:W5JBP@aol.com] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 5:44 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:9609] BPL http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAABVQNFLD.html This is the third article in 4 days. I would say they have a better PR machine than we do. Jim Haynie