Our North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club (NOARC) is about to purchase a small (.3 of an acre) piece of land (mortgage company owned) at a very good price. There is a MD's office about 100 feet from this
Local jurisdictions have NO authority to regulate RFI. That authority belongs exclusively to the federal government. A zoning change denial that incorporates potential RFI issues into the decision wo
Hi Cal. I would be quite concerned about RF trash from equipment in those medical offices. It's likely to be considered Industrial by FCC, making it subject only Part 15 Class A standards, which allo
Author: Chris Wynn via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:26:10 -0700
A few years ago, I was the assistant county attorney for a county here in Georgia. We had a zoning board member that would always try and bring that issue up. He was one of the yahoos that actuall
Quite aside from the legal or technical merits, a lawsuit involving services gone wrong at either office could easily ensnare your club. Even if the claims are baseless, you could be in for tens of t
Cal Has anyone taken a good SW receiver to the property with a reasonable HF antenna and listened to the local noise level at different times? Part 15 diathermy machines are said to be the worst RFI
Cal, I work at a hospital. I am also an active ham with an HF+VHF mobile setup I use in the parking lot at the hospital for CWT contests at least once a week. (mostly on 20m) In sunspot peak years I
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:28:51 -0500
Intended as mostly humorous mostly off topic digression... As a young lad who could only afford really cheap super regen receivers for an RC airplane operating on CB freqs I really hated it when the
UL and CSA are SAFETY Testing Standards ONLY. The test products to show that 1) they cannot start a fire and 2) they do not provide an opportunity for electrical shock. In the case of wiring, they al
Jim is of course correct and I made the fatal error of getting interrupted when I wrote that last email and failed to finish my train of thought when I came back to sit down and type. I'm actually em
I agree. I live 1/4 mile from two big hospitals and I get all kinds of garbage. I can't imagine trying to trace that kind of thing down. You might consider if they have MRI machines with 8877s in the
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 19:54:12 -0400
"In the old days<:-), probably about when you had your experiences, my late boss (a ham), from many, many years ago used 6 meters to get away from the CB crowd, BUT 6-meters was not without its hazar