All: Just received word from yet another ham who is experiencing solar panel RFI. Jeff, KD2SCR said he recently became a new ham and noticed that his home solar system was causing interference. The s
Get these reports to Steve Anderson, W1EMI@arrl.org, or rfi@arrl.org. The more we bring these to the involved companies, the more they will do to try to improve future designs. Ed, W1RFI All: Just re
not having a BAD solar System, but a good one , I wonder what happens to receiving AM broadcasting ????? The AM broadcaster is a guy with a commercial license, a big investment AND THE PROFIT MOTIVE
Author: "EDWARDS, EDDIE J via RFI" <rfi@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 15:23:31 +0000
I've only seen RFI mentioned in passing a few times in Radio World a broadcast magazine. Doesn't seem to be an issue for broadcasters typically operating from 5,000 watts to 50,000 watts. If you thin
Their biggest concern is that they are losing mobile listeners. Yes, only a small percentage of their service area has unacceptable noise, but if a listener has objectionable noise often, they tune a
At what distance would one typically notice residential solar system noise on HF? I'm lucky so far, none around me. And to tell the truth I am not aware of any in the area. I'm in SW TN. My county is
I have worked in the technical end of radio broadcasting since 1965. The stations that I worked for have lost listeners and a great deal of coverage, due to RFI. I cant begin to count of the number o
And the "official" reply from FCC to the impacted (RFI) coverage areas for AM BC, "Increase your output power." Sure.....Yea......That costs the BCer money both for a new transmitter and continuing a
Many AM station bother staying on the because they can on operate on the FM band via a FM translator license. Mike N2MS _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting
It sure was 20 years ago for 50kW Chicago powerhouse WLS. Their chief engineer was a friend, told me that they had lots of complaints from Ford owners on the other side of town, who couldn't listen d
A couple of years ago a friend who was a BC consulting engineer told me he was doing a lot of design work for low cost AM BC antennas. Seems that the stations want to stay on the air (I assume after
And if you follow it, a lot go dark until the FCC complains, then they do a minimal fix. Lather, rinse, repeat Charlie 73 de KG2V Http://www.thegallos.com ____________________________________________
Author: Steve Dyer W1SRD via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 10:54:38 -0700
Here is where the FCC is: https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/fcc-requests-budget-increase The FCC has 1550 employees to manage all the spectrum issues for a country of 330,000,000 citizens and a GDP o
Yes, and 1.5 staff in the ARRL Lab have managed to be the focal point and do all the legwork for the cases that FCC does handle. Without that, we'd be back to the pre-Riley days where FCC took no act
If the FCC had nipped this problem in the beginning, we would not be where we are today. That was the time when FCC still had budget and manpower to perform their functions. They still did very littl
Smaller Government = Smaller FCC. Folks reap what they sow. 73, Ken, KJ9B _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listi
We, the citizens of the country, did not choose the downsizing of the FCC. We had absolutely no say in the decision. And.......selling off a natural resource to fund a bunch of lawyers while gutting
Author: "EDWARDS, EDDIE J via RFI" <rfi@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 18:39:24 +0000
And the internet as well, which is less reliable than the geographically distributed AM/FM broadcast sites. But lawyers aren't worried about reliability of communications. READ THIS FIRST! This is NO
Ed, Your point is well taken, but the graph is not baselined rationally. A typical statistical trick is to show an elevated baseline, and not one that is proportionate. From its peak of 2100 employee
Author: "EDWARDS, EDDIE J via RFI" <rfi@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 19:31:58 +0000
Absolutely true Jim. 20 years ago our utility kept one technician busy part-time looking for power line noise complaints. And 50 years ago, they kept 1 or even 2 or more technicians busy full time tr