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March   ,  2006                                                                                           

Mr. Richard M. Kessel
Chairman  LIPA
333 Earle Ovington Blvd.  Suite 403
Uniondale, NY  11553

Re:  LIPA and “BPL”

Dear Mr. Kessel,

I have been a licensed Amateur Radio operator for   ….. years and live in  ………LI, NY.  As a LIPA rate payer I am concerned about what LIPA is about to do regarding BPL as I have thousands of dollars invested in Amateur radio equipment that may become useless if you deploy a BPL system that creates noise in the RF spectrum in the 2 to 30 MHz range.

I respectfully request that LIPA choose a BPL service provider that uses equipment that will not cause interference with Amateur Radio and other licensed services.  Please enlist the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) to help LIPA choose the equipment that will generate the least interference to other services.  To avoid interference to licensed Amateur Radio operators your BPL system should:
           
         ·       not place BPL signals on the low voltage distribution lines
            ·       should screen or notch all Amateur frequencies
         ·       Not employ BPL in the 2 to 30 MHz range
         ·       Enlist ARRL’s help in choosing a system that avoids RF pollution  

Amateurs in general are in favor of broadband.  We like it and we use it and believe that everyone should have it, but not at the cost of making it impossible to use our precious high frequency (HF 3 to 30 MHz) allocations.  We are not against progress, just against radio frequency pollution.  

As one of over 6,000 licensed Amateur Radio operators on Long Island I strongly request that you please do not deploy BPL equipment that will cause interference and severely limit our ability to provide emergency communications.  

Sincerely,

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