[RFI] Solar Panel RFI Awareness At Dayton

Tony 73guddx at gmail.com
Mon May 9 16:33:38 EDT 2022


All:

Dayton seems to be a good place to inform hams about solar panel RFI and 
it's potential for wide-spread interference. With 400 cases and counting 
handled by the ARRL and FCC regulations that carry little weight, this 
subject needs to be addressed.

Companies like Kenwood, Elecraft and others as well as tower and antenna 
manufactures should be made aware of the potential impact on equipment 
sales. They need to get on board with the ARRL and push-back on 
manufactures who continue to install horrendously noisy solar installations.

A petition requesting the FCC to act with regard to solar panel RFI is 
long overdue. As Ed Hare has mentioned, solar systems along with the 
wires attached to inverters and optimizers do not have specific 
emissions limits. Ed also points out that this needs to be addressed and 
that those kinds of changes to emissions limits are going to take YEARS 
to resolve.

The FCC needs to hear from 700,000 U.S. hams before things gets out of 
hand with solar installations. The ARRL can't do it all.

Tony -K2MO



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