On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:48:47 GMT, Mike Coslo wrote:

But there could end up being *one* test, no?

An commision that would seriously consider the technically bankrupt
technology of BPL would be most capable of such a thing.

They are being considered by two entirely different processors with
entirely different agendas and outside pressures.

BPL will be well briefed to the "Eighth Floor" Commission sanctum
folks by the time that the Commission has to look at it, and the
decisions at the Commission level will be industry-political, not
technological.

Ham testing, OTOH, will be decided at the Division Chief level, two
levels below the Commission, and will be rubber-stamped by the
Bureau Chief (one level below) as well as by the Commission.

That's the real world.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon