Rick et al, Ed Hare is scheduled to attend the Denver Power Engineering Society meeting and will make a brief presentation on BPL interference. I'm an active member of IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP) and contributed to the IEEE-USA's comments filed in the BPL NPRM. Carl Stevenson drafted it, had to tone it down a bit but got it through the approval process despite some nay-sayers. BPL remains a priority topic for CCIP. At this point, it's not clear whether IEEE-USA will file reply comments. Paul At 03:25 PM 5/17/2004 -0400, K5ur@aol.com wrote:

Hi All:

FYI.

I thought that I'd forward this to ODV since we have a lot of hams with IEEE connections.

73, K5UR Return-Path: <k4pzt@usit.net> Received: from rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (rly-yg02.mail.aol.com [172.18.180.98]) by air-yg04.mail.aol.com (v99_r4.3) with ESMTP id MAILINYG41-27540a9017e12d; Mon, 17 May 2004 14:16:42 -0400 Received: from SMTP.ARRL.ORG (smtp.arrl.org [69.0.106.218]) by rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (v99_r4.3) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYG29-27540a9017e12d; Mon, 17 May 2004 14:16:30 -0400 Received: from mail.ARRL.ORG ([10.1.120.113]) by SMTP.ARRL.ORG with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 17 May 2004 14:05:58 -0400 Received: from capitol.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.180]) by mail.ARRL.ORG with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 17 May 2004 14:04:03 -0400 Received: from dialup-145-160.tnkno2.usit.net ([216.80.145.160] helo=D1GN0N41) by capitol.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BPmT2-0006T8-00; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:04:01 -0700 Message-ID: <001c01c43c39$5299f380$a09150d8@D1GN0N41> From: "David Bower" <k4pzt@usit.net> To: "Rick Roderick" <k5ur@arrl.org>, "Larry Marshall" <wb4ncw@arrl.org>, "Henry Leggette" <wd4q@arrl.org> Cc: "Jennifer Hagy" <jhagy@arrl.org> Subject: Fw: IEEE-USA News: IEEE-USA Cites Concern on Access BPL Systems Rules with FCC Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:03:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 May 2004 18:04:03.0393 (UTC) FILETIME=[566BE310:01C43C39] X-AOL-IP: 69.0.106.218

Forward--FYI--concerning "BPL" input from IEEE-USA. The conference they mention in Denver involves IEEE-SA (that's the IEEE standards society), the PES (Power Engineering Society), and other IEEE societies involving communications.

It's great news to hear from IEEE-USA !!!

Please forward this information to ARRL people, as appropriate.

FYI, I'll be meeting in Washington, DC this week to discuss H1-B and L-1 engineering concerns representing IEEE-USA, meeting with government representatives, and I'll certainly bring up BPL concerns as appropriate.

David Bower d.bower@ieee.org