As far as I know, it is not necessary to be a registered professional engineer to make technical submissions to the FCC. There would be a problem if they claimed to be PEs and weren't, but I have rarely seen a PE stamp on technical submissions to the FCC. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Wade [mailto:walstrom@mchsi.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:00 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:13990] Manassas developments I have serious doubts about the competency of this report from Public Safety Engineering, Inc. Neither Mssrs. David Foerstner nor Steven Hoke signed this report as registered professional engineers and there are no professional engineering stamps and accompanying statements attached. Neither Mssrs Foerstner nor Hoke are found on the Florida database of registered professional engineers nor, more importantly, in the Virginia professional engineer database. If they indeed are not registerd professional engineers in Florida and Virginia, complaints could be filed against them for practicing without a license. Hmmm. 73, Wade W0EJ P.E. (Iowa, California) -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:50 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:13990] Manassas developments Last week, COMTek provided the FCC with less than the FCC had required in responding to the BPL interference complaint filed by Dwight Agnew, AI4II. That did not prevent COMTek from issuing a news release that made it sound as if they had been found to have a clean bill of health: http://www.comtechnologies.com/pr_20060407.htm The ARRL Web story has just been posted: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/04/12/102/?nc=1 You will find links to the COMTek response to the FCC and to the interim lab report. Ed Hare has completed a scathing analysis of the deficiencies in the lab report. Chris Imlay will be filing it with the FCC as soon as he gets a chance. Dave K1ZZ