[RFI] Politics and RFI

[Wes Stewart]

In downtown Tucson, AZ the worst RFI pollution is caused by... the City of Tucson.

A few years ago, the whole downtown was dug up and inconvenienced by the construction of a "Modern Streetcar" which was financed by the US taxpayers to the tune of $200M from DOT and $4.4M per year operating costs to run a bunch of empty cars from the U of A campus to downtown.

This is an 750V system with overhead wires (19' high) running throughout downtown.  The buzz on my AM car radio is huge.  The fire department was never consulted and they are appalled at the thought of having to raise a ladder on these streets.

But Portland Oregon has a street car and the wacky City Council is in love with Portland, so we had to have one too.

Fat chance trying to get this mess quieted down.

Wes  N7WS

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 Message: 4
 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:16:49 -0500
 From: Joe <nss at mwt.net>

 
 Get the broadcast industry involved?
 Even in small towns of like 5000 or
 less in population. Downtown, try to 
 listen to AM radio. You can only hear a
 few stations that are strong 
 enough to get above the noise.
 
 Joe WB9SBD