Dick Carroll wrote in message ...

I got no response to my private email so I'll ask again here in public.


Hey, I responded.

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.

Engineers are not required to become Registered Professional Engineers
and most of us are not P.E.s. Phil is a P.E., I'm not. The state
boards can spank Phil but they can't spank me because I'm outside
their jurisdiction. Also note that the FCC does not require engineers
to have P.E. licenses in order to participate as technical experts in
regulatory matters.

Phil is 100% correct about an engineer's employer having the bottom
line responsibility for his/her actions (there are exceptions). If an
engineer screws up and somebody gets hurts some way or another the
engineer might be fired by the employer but the lawyers and regulators
will hold the the employer responsible for the screwup, not the
engineer. The legal and medical industries play different ballgames in
this respect.

So the PP&L engineer who is playing silly games can completely ignore
and/or mislead anybody he chooses without suffering any legal
consequences at all, P.E. or not. Within the limits his employer sets
on his actions.


To do any less is to allow them to win by default.
Of course you'll have to have your engineering all in place.

He does. But we still have to continue supporting his ongoing efforts
and beasting on the FCC as private citizens and as ARRL members.



Dick

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