[RFI] solar farm ordinance

[Hare, Ed, W1RFI]

In all cases, I heard no noise right up to perimeter of the facility, although walking around most of them would have entailed trespassing onto posted land.

One of them was not posted, so I walked around and in the back, where the inverters were, I heard about an S3 noise right at the fence, maybe 30 feet from the transformer.

From: David Eckhardt <davearea51a at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 7:16 PM
To: Hare, Ed, W1RFI <w1rfi at arrl.org>
Cc: Jamie WW3S <ww3s at zoominternet.net>; Rfi List <rfi at contesting.com>; Anderson, Steve, W1EMI <SAnderson at arrl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFI] solar farm ordinance

Yes, Ed, it can be done!!!!  The installation at DIA in Denver is pretty clean.

Dave - WØLEV

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:12 AM Hare, Ed, W1RFI <w1rfi at arrl.org<mailto:w1rfi at arrl.org>> wrote:
Steve Anderson, W1EMI, is ARRL's RFI engineer.  In his previous life, he was involved in solar-farm siting projects, so I am sure he can help.

I have externally visited 4 different local farms and found them to be surprisingly RF quiet.  That is no guarantee for the future, but it is encouraging.

Ed, W1RFI



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From: RFI <rfi-bounces+w1rfi=arrl.org at contesting.com<mailto:arrl.org at contesting.com>> On Behalf Of David Eckhardt
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 7:09 PM
To: Jamie WW3S <ww3s at zoominternet.net<mailto:ww3s at zoominternet.net>>
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Subject: Re: [RFI] solar farm ordinance

The Dever airport, DIA, has a large solar farm.  As best I can tell with several trips in and out of the airport, it produces no or minimal RFI.  I don't know who did the install, but it is clean.  You might contact DIA to determine who did the install and what rules they were under.

Dave - WØLEV

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 9:22 PM Jamie WW3S <ww3s at zoominternet.net<mailto:ww3s at zoominternet.net>> wrote:

> I have been asked to provide input to our local township planning
> commission with regards to a new solar farm ordinance. I was wondering
> if anyone has any copies of existing ordinances they would like to
> share. Apparently some outfit is coming into our county looking to put
> these solar farms up everywhere, and I'm looking to get ahead of the
> game......the one they installed in the western edge of the county has
> been a real sh*tshow from the get go.....and now the local township is
> regretting the installation, and our township is currently drafting an
> ordinance, so any thoughts, suggestions, etc would be appreciated.
> Also, any references to interference, etc from farms currently deployed.
>
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