[RFI] ARRL Board of Directors resolution related to FCCenforcement of radio-interference issues

[Hare, Ed W1RFI]

Actually, that's not really intended to be an easy out.  If we want FCC enforcement to have teeth, the old paradigm will not work. We can't expect to identify a thousand RFI problems, turn them all over to the FCC and have the FCC solve them. That paradigm never really existed anyway, despite popular misbelief.  

The only process that will work is for those with interference problems to try to resolve them directly, allow ARRL to try to work with utilities and others, turn cases over to the FCC for what i call "advisory letters" to the bad guys, and then to have the FCC step in for those cases that are not resolved by the efforts of the "pre-enforcement" activities.  If there were to be thousands of cases requiring "real" FCC enforcement, there is no way that the FCC could take that on. 

So, the most urgent cases are, from an RFI perspective, a mere handful of cases at this point for which super-human effort has been done to try to resolve it, asking the FCC to use some teeth to serve as an incentive for the other cases to be resolved directly. If we take a laundry list of every case to the FCC, it's game over, so we are identifying a few that are good examples, with sound history, calm complainants and a documented harmful interference problem and a known source.

Ed Hare, W1RFI
ARRL Lab


-----Original Message-----
From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of KD7JYK DM09
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [RFI] ARRL Board of Directors resolution related to FCCenforcement of radio-interference issues

"Let's hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears in our Federal Government like so many other things."

They already worked an easy out into it:

"identification of the most urgent enforcement cases"

Kurt 

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