[RFI] re Nineteen Hour Noise

[Tom Thompson]

Dave,

I live in one of those states, also (Colorado).  In the last few years I 
have tracked down 5 growing operations that were polluting the 
spectrum.  The sad part of this is that the electronic lamp ballasts 
could be made quiet.  Most of the electronic ballasts come from China 
and have not undergone any part 18 testing even though they have FCC 
stickers.  I spent about 2 hours with the FCC personnel in Denver 
discussing this.  It did not seem high on their priority list and our 
local police are not interested.  I don't know what the solution is but 
it is an ever increasing problem.  Larry, W0QE, said that since we did 
measurements and he published them on his web site, The number of hits 
on that page has been increasing at an alarming rate.

Tom   W0IVJ

On 6/2/2013 9:15 AM, David Cole wrote:
> I do live in one of those states...
>
> Having pot growing be legal, for any reason, sure makes it difficult to
> keep a clean spectrum.
>
> I can only hope that when Oregon fully legalizes growth of pot, (and it
> will, right now it is medical only), it disallows home growing like, (I
> believe), Washington State did...  Oregon currently allows home growing
> and sales if you are licensed.
>
> If Oregon changes that to be only State Supplied, then that should tend
> to reduce the number of non-legal grow operations, and hence the RFI.
>