At 10:17 AM 12/6/2006, Harrison, Joel wrote:

One thing that is clear is that we have to be smarter in our filings and generating individual comments in support of our petitions and positions. The fact that the FCC will take a handful of comments over an organization representing many is not unique to the FCC. Professionally I�m involved with a utility group through EPRI that deals with the NRC. The NRC recently made a decision in a matter similar to an FCC NPRM and that decision had some parallel aspects to this in that the final decision was quite different in some aspects than what was proposed in their equivalent NRPM. The utility/EPRI organization decided to file comments, however, it was made very clear in addition to the organization filing comments on behalf of all of the industry that the utilities should also file individual comments in support of the organization because the NRC doesn�t consider a representative organization�s comments as carrying any more weight than one individual.

So, that is really step one in a strategy to work up that will contain many steps and is something I want to concentrate on in the coming weeks.

That's hitting the nail on the head. Completely agree. If we aren't being taken seriously enough we have to get our members involved to support us. The FCC may not like the amount of input that generates though... -- Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444