[RFI] ARRL to FCC...

[Hare, Ed W1RFI]

From the measurements made by ARRL of consumer products show that the vast majority of products that claim to follow the rules actually do follow the rules.  

The two exceptions have been some of the battery chargers and power supplies imported from various countries and, of course, the grow lights ARRL recently tested. 

FCC does do some spot checking, but mostly in response to complaints.

Yes, the rules permit rather high levels of noise. If hams have S9-ish interference from a neighboring house, it is likely that the device does not meet the rules.  When ARRL receives those types of complaints, we often purchase one of the units in question and make measurements and, if there are emissions-limit violations of more than the few dB of measurement uncertainty we have, we file formal complaints with the FCC.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Laws [mailto:plaws0 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:55 PM
To: Hare, Ed W1RFI
Cc: rfi at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] ARRL to FCC...

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Hare, Ed  W1RFI <w1rfi at arrl.org> wrote:
> The FCC has already outsourced certification to the TCBs, Peter.  Can you elaborate a bit more on what additional outsourcing you think is possible?
>
> Ed, W1RFI

Someone in the thread seemed to think the FCC should be doing the inspections and on a large scale.  Not gonna happen, as you know, and if it did it would be contractors, not the FCC ... just like it is with whatever testing is done now.


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