"Dick Carroll" wrote in message
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I got no response to my private email so I'll ask again here in public.

What's wrong with going after those engineers who are obscuring the
technical facts of BPL? If a doctor or lawyer messes up bigtime and
people suffer for it, he can be called to account. I see no reason
whatever that those engineers behind the hiding of the facts of BPL
can't be cited to answer to their state licensing boards for it. I see
it as entirely possible that the negative publicity alone might change
the nature of the situation-what investor owned company wants to answer
to stockholders for spending many millions of dollars on such a
technically flawed plan which is most likely to lose money because of a
plan based on flawed engineering and deliberate bypassing of the rules?

Another possible benefit of taking action against engineers would be
the fact that FCC *should* be far less likely to approve a BPL plan that
had been shown IN PUBLIC to be technically flawed, with citations given
such as the "neon sign" diversionary.

If that engineer won't answer your remails, send him a registered
letter. If he doesn't answer that, see if he'll answer to his state
licensing board. To do any less is to allow them to win by default.
Of course you'll have to have your engineering all in place.

Dick



You should go after the company. The engineer almost certainly cannot
answer you directly as it would be against corporate policy. He has to get
it approved by his boss and the corporate lawyers. Keep in mind that no
matter what he/she may have recommended internally to the company,
management makes the decisions based on perceived profit. The engineer may
have not hidden a thing but management very well may have (remember the
first shuttle disaster). However, remove the perceived profit, and the
project will be dropped like a hot potato.

As far as going to the state licensing board, that will almost certainly
fail. There are only a limited number of circumstances where engineers are
required to be licensed and this probably isn't one of them. Very few
engineers in this country are licensed.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE