I think we have learned from the last couple of Presidential elections
that anything is possible.
Why would we want to discourage people from actually organizing a grass
roots movement and make our case heard. Maybe the ARRL is going to take
a stronger stance or are we just getting more lip service from the upper
brass. It is like the anti FT mode crowd that attempts to discourage
people from operating a mode that they like. A mode that is vastly more
popular than any other currently.
There is nothing stopping these products from being purchased, used or
installed. Two or three people or 10 will not make the difference. For
every Solar installation that "we" fix, how many dirty ones were
installed yesterday or the last month. All of that noise is still
there. It raises the noise floor. It impacts users of the bands that
probably have no idea how to solve it.
We do not educate people very well on what to look for and how to report
noise. What would it take for the FCC to wake up? 10 reports a day
100, 1000? I bet they get very few a month.
There has been a change in the attitude of those attempting to solve
power line RFI. I put in a complaint to a system that I am not on and
the man in charge came to my house and has been very helpful. 20 years
ago it probably would have taken a complaint to the FCC and Public
Utilities Commission. Maybe this is not true for all areas but it does
seem true for parts of Colorado where I continue to good things.
K3LR-It is pretty hard to take out politics from the equation. The ARRL
is political, the FCC is political, Congress is political and most every
one of us is political. Even selecting contest managers seems to be
political.
When we quit we have lost.
W0MU
On 7/27/2024 11:32 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 7/27/2024 9:52 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
While getting the FCC to change may be hard, I think we need to try.
While I admire your attitude, and share it about many issues, Ed Hare
is absolutely right -- this is not one we can ever hope to win. Ed and
I both have long followed the politics of this -- Ed from the
perspective of being the League's presence on the national and
international level of EMC, and me from the much broader perspective
of electoral politics in general and the overwhelming influence of big
money that has increased exponentially during my lifetime. We are not,
and never will be, even a flea on the pimple of the ass of the beast.
There was once a wise man who taught us to fight for what we can
change, accept what we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.
(I'm paraphrasing, and have forgotten which wise man it was.)
What we CAN do is what W0LEV and NA6O have been doing -- testing
suspect products before buying -- and taking defective stuff back to
vendors and getting our money back. And talking to mfrs of noisy
products when they are accessible; Ed can tell us about that. At least
20 years ago, I found someone intelligent at Lutron to talk to about
their dimmers, some of them were much quieter than other products.
73, Jim K9YC
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