[RFI] Solar Panel RFI Awareness At Dayton

[Dave (NK7Z)]

My response was directed to Jim's post, not Ed's post...  I had not seen 
Eds response when I sent it, I fully agree with Ed in this...  We need 
to be careful in what we ask for...

73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources

On 5/25/22 22:24, Dave (NK7Z) wrote:
> If only the FCC enforced their own rules, I would agree with you...
> 
> There is very little proactive enforcement happening up in this area, 
> and I suspect elsewhere...
> 
> RFI is rampant, and getting worse, not better.  It is a mindlessly 
> simple task to locate a grow operations in most cases.  Yet the Amateur 
> is the person on the front lines in location, and in first contact with 
> the offender, exposing the Amateur to possible liability, and possible 
> assault.
> 
> The grow ops up here are far too big to be selling in state, which means 
> they are selling out of state, which means they are illegal.  So the FCC 
> is placing the Amateur in the position of possibly dealing with a drug 
> offender...  The real issue is the RFI, not what is being grown, or 
> warmed, or lit...  Just the RFI, but it is still the Amateur that has to 
> knock on the door, and explain what is happening to whoever answers...
> 
> The FCC is ham stringed by not enough funding, so we are the front 
> line...  RFI enforcement has switched from proactive to reactive as a 
> result of lack of funding-- unless you are a cell provider...  Then one 
> call gets instant action, and-- god forbid you even think about starting 
> a pirate FM station...
> 
> In a perfect world, I would report RFI to the FCC, and they would send 
> down a field engineer in a timely manner, locate the RFI, and fine, or 
> warn the perpetrator, then followup with the operator of the device a 
> few weeks later, to ascertain compliance levels.  This would force an 
> overall reduction in the amount RFI, over time as consumers went after 
> the installers, and the manufacturers.
> 
> That is just not happening.  Thus the problem gets worse, not better.
> 
> This is why I say, there is some reasonable level of RFI that the 
> amateur is going to have to accept.  Be it right or wrong, that is the 
> way it is working, and for the foreseeable future going to work.  This 
> is very unfortunate.
> 
> 73,
> Dave,
> https://www.nk7z.net
> On 5/25/22 11:26, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On 5/25/2022 1:38 AM, Dave (NK7Z) wrote:
>>> Respectfully I am saying that at some point there is a level at which 
>>> the FCC will say too bad, live with it.  That level will be above 
>>> what things were before the solar installation arrived.
>>
>> FCC Rules say that if a product interferes with licensed radio 
>> operation that use of it must be discontinued.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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