[RFI] Politics and RFI

[Dave Cole (NK7Z)]

Circling even further back to the original thought...  We have all 
defined the issue here, any suggestions on how to actually go about 
fixing it?

Me-- I do a lot of locating for the local hams here, and whenever I find 
an RFI event, I make sure I involve the vendor, and the manufacture if 
possible by informing them of the problem with the equipment they make 
or sell.

In the case of grow lights, if the vendor is local, I make sure the 
vendor knows that I will be recommending that the grower return the 
lights to him, and asking for a full refund.  I then leave a handout 
about RFI with the vendor.

If the event affects AM radio, I always involve the AM station, if 
nothing else, a short note letting them know that in the future if they 
have RFI issues in that vicinity to contact me.

Yes...  I have become quite militant about RFI.  If I can get the local 
vendors to stop selling RFI generating lights in this area, switching 
them to RFI quiet lights, then maybe, just maybe, I can save myself a 
few weeks or months of dealing with an RFI event later.

73s and thanks,
Dave
NK7Z
https://www.nk7z.net

On 03/19/2018 01:18 PM, Jim Stahl via RFI wrote:
> To circle back to my original thought, while there is indeed good stuff made in China, there is also a lot of cheap, RFI producing crap. And there are regulatory definitions such as “components” to deal with. But if we might be able to persuade the right folks in Washington to do the right thing (i.e. get serious about EMI compliance) for the “wrong” reason (i.e. to screw up Chinese imports),  it would be a very good thing.
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> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
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>> On Mar 19, 2018, at 3:21 PM, Howard Lester <howard220 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I agree. A friend(?) recently painted a broad, very negative brush about Chinese workers, their working “culture," and the products they produce. I responded to him, saying that I guess you’ve not recently looked through any of their fine telescopes made for the amateur astronomy market, or used Nikon camera lenses currently made in China. Yes, we do tend to bash products made in China, but many are plenty good. Remember in the 50’s and 60’s we used to joke about products labeled “Made in Japan”?
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>> Howard N7SO
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>>>> Wait till we start getting stuff made in "Inja" as the Brits like to call it.
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>>> It's not reasonable to paint all products from any country as uniformly good or bad. Last I heard, Apple products are made in China. Anan started out life in India, and their SDR transceivers are pretty highly regarded. And according to Consumer Reports at the time, there was a decade or so ('60s-70s) when a lot of what came out of Detroit/Flint didn't hold up very well.
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>>> 73, Jim K9YC
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