[RFI] ARRL to FCC...

[Roger D Johnson]

An occasional spot check wouldn't bring world commerce to a halt! If an item fails
and it's found that the mfr left out critical filtering components, the whole 
load goes
back to China.

On 3/29/2014 3:43 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 03/21/2014 02:48 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>> Do you really think we need more gov't to be involved with inspecting
>> and testing EVERY item that is made so that it does not hurt people,
>> cause interference and on and on and on.  We would never see another
>> product brought to market.
>>
>> We don't live in a perfect world and expecting something like this with
>> a gov't that is 17trillion in the hole is crazy.
> Proactively having the government check everything does seem
> impractical, indeed.
>
> However, putting rules in place that oblige manufacturers
> and/or importers to replace faulty equipment at their expense
> (instead of stiffing the consumers) might be a good deterrent
> to people sticking FCC stickers on untested equipment...
>