[RFI] RFI - A Losing Battle

[Jim McCook]

There is a lot here that doesn’t make any sense to me.It appears to be a 
fantasy that there is a FCC regulation to prevent harmful interference 
to licensed radio communication.Interference is interference.S-7 noise 
is harmful when the signal interfered with is S-6.If the signal is S-3 
and the offending noise is S-4, it is exactly the same situation.All 
these special rules for different devices, incidental radiators, 
unintentional radiators, intentional radiators, ad nauseam, concern 
devices that need NOT cause interference above or below 30 MHz _if 
properly designed_.We all know “FCC Compliance” is a joke where lobbying 
and politics rule.   It appears on a label that may have come from a 
roll of labels printed in China and slapped onto electronic garbage that 
indeed causes RFI.The switching power supply for my K3 sits inches from 
the radio._It creates NO RFI_.

Government (FCC) is supposed to be working FOR US, but what really 
happens is that FCC obviously has abandoned Part 15.3 (n) when it comes 
to Amateur Radio.Ed and Paul at ARRL make a huge effort to help hams by 
picking up the void left by FCC that has placed ridiculous limits 
allowing interference to occur unless that interference reaches a 
certain arbitrarily determined signal level, never mind that it DOES 
cause interference to amateur radio. This responsibility should NOT be 
on the shoulders of ARRL.  It is a HUGE burden.

A different agency consisting of _engineers and enforcement_ is needed 
to replace FCC that can properly deal with amateur radio interference.It 
should be funded by our tax money that is being thrown away on many 
foolish, wasteful political agencies.Until this happens we will continue 
to slowly lose our HF spectrum due to rapidly increasing sources of 
devastating RFI.We are rapidly losing this battle.

Jim W6YA