On 2013-11-14, at 1:07 PM, Donald Chester wrote:
> The bad news is that Panasonic is just one manufacturer, and there are
> already millions of plasma TVs in service that are likely to continue spewing
> out their garbage for years to come.
>
> Those things are everywhere! Fortunately for me, I live out in the country
> and don't have this problem, and a plasma TV will never enter these premises,
> but many if not most hams I talk to, who live in a densely populated urban
> area, tell me that plasma TV interference has made the lower HF bands
> difficult or downright unusable. I wonder if this problem might not be far
> more widespread than most people
> think, and a major reason that activity on 160m and 75m has clearly dwindled
> in recent years.
>
> This shouldn't even be an issue. This kind of interference is clearly a
> violation of FCC rules and never should have been allowed to get out of hand
> to the extent that it has. RFI hash trashing up the bands could end up being
> as much a threat to amateur radio as TVI was back in the 50s.
>
> I don't understand why ARRL and the AM broadcast industry, along with other
> HF users such as aviation and the military, haven't joined together to
> sponsor an urgent research project to retrofit plasma TVs to eliminate the
> RFI, and then once demonstrated that this would be feasible, exert pressure
> on congress and the FCC to follow the law that already exists on the books,
> and force manufacturers and existing users to clean those things up, just as
> the FCC did with the guy who had the defective well pump motor. Amateur radio
> probably couldn't accomplish this alone, but a combined effort with other
> interests probably could pull it off. Remember, NTIA nixed a real 60m amateur
> band because the government insisted that those HF channels were
> strategically indispensable for national security. As with paranoia over the
> health effects of rf, "national security" is another hot-button issue that
> would likely resonate with politicians and the public.
>
> Don k4kyv
Hi Don,
It's all about the money, & nothing else---and at ALL levels, too...
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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