[RFI] Christian Science Monitor article re BPL

[Skip Cameron]

Here's my letter to editors of Christian Science Monitor.
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I had a 35-year career in the computer industry executive, and enjoy listening to short wave radio. BPL by its nature radiates insidious spectrum pollution. Radio frequency energy injected into an unshielded wire above ground radiates to the air. Field trials have proven this. BPL uses frequencies from 1.8-80
megahertz, interfering with FCC licensed users. BPL systems are also subject to interruption by legal transmissions of licensed users. Until the technologies of BPL are technically sound and proven by rigorous design analysis, lab testing, controlled field testing, they should not be endorsed, embraced, enabled by
legislation or implemented. Given these facts, you can see how BPL, promoted by the unscrupulous who will gain from it, will most likely create another "Enron", with electric utility ratepayers and investors the losers. Computer people like me and HF spectrum licensees and listeners are the most prolific supporters of
new technologies and have led and participated in the technology revolutions of our generation. We are like that "canary in the coal mine" and should be listened to and heeded on the subject of BPL's fundamental problems.