[RFI] Fraudulent FCC RFI Certification

[Mike Ryan]

A lot less of this would happen if we would STOP buying cheap. But hams 
(especially hams) are about the 'cheapest' buyers out there. ADMIT IT...
If this were not true we wouldn't see guys lining up to buy these new 
Chinese handhelds for example.  The TYT, Woxon, Woxoff, and BaBaBowie or 
whatever the heck they are called. We are just as guilty as Harry Homeowner 
going into Home Depot and buying that lead based paint painted kitchen light 
fixture.  -Mike

-----Original Message----- 
From: Eddy Swynar
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:41 PM
To: ka5s at earthlink.net
Cc: rfi at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] Fraudulent FCC RFI Certification


On 2014-02-18, at 4:21 PM, CR wrote:

> When I retired from the Army and went to work at Wang in 1983, it was in 
> their TEMPEST audit lab, but we did FCC audits, too.   One new product --  
> we called it the Fredwriter -- was quite obviously above the Part 15 
> limits, and after I reported this, it was only a few weeks later that I 
> got an angry call from a factory manager in China:
>
> "How come you close down my factory!?"
>
> I tried to tell him all I did was measure things, but I got the ball 
> rolling to find out what had actually happened.  The case was upper and 
> lower clamshells coated with copper bearing paint and snapped together, 
> then secured with screws. The Chinese factory had some problems getting 
> the halves to latch, so the factory manager talked to his buddy at the 
> plastics factory and got cases made MINUS beveled interior features where 
> the copper made contact, top to bottom...
>
> Something a bit like this -- likely unintentional and unasked for -- seems 
> to have happened to a different firm where I worked later, when a fairly 
> recent (this century) FCC Enforcement bulletin reported that one of its 
> wireless remote controls was exceeding Part 15 radiated power limits. 
> Interestingly enough, I had,  back in the day, devised a modification 
> there, a piece of copper tape inside the case, to REDUCE the radiated 
> power from a similar item my then-employer was importing.
>
> Scenario: Some guys in an Asian factory...
>
> First guy: "Hmm. What's this doing? Let's leave it off."
> Second guy: "Hey! It works better, too!"
> Production line supe: "Ship it!"
>
> Anyone doing FCC audits?  Heh.
>
> Cortland Richmond



Hi Cortland,

Well said, indeed...

Cheap, Asian imports will be the death knell to any North American 
standards---if they haven't already proven to be so. In our obsession with 
"cheap" we've forgotten that quality is a unique, desirable, ESSENTIAL thing 
to have, too...

Not like what Lenin once said, i.e. "Quantity has a quality all its own."

Go tell that the those who would "WalMart" America & Canada, though...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ

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