[RFI] Solar Panel RFI Awareness At Dayton

[Dave (NK7Z)]

Hi Dave (W0LEV),

Each time I vote, I try my best to take this, (and many other things), 
into consideration, when selecting who I vote for...  The fix is to vote 
people in charge that can effect the change we would like to see...

It's not the FCC's fault that they have less money today, than 
yesterday.  I am glad the ARRL is here to act as a safety net for us... 
It gives us some protection, imperfect as it is, it is the only 
protection we have right now...

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

On 5/26/22 09:20, David Eckhardt wrote:
> Dave, NK7Z, you hit the nails squarely on the heads in your last email.
> 
> Further, those of us who are members of ARRL are paying in our dues (or 
> life memberships) what FCC was originally tasked to do, among other 
> tasks within CFR47.  ARRL and the amateurs are now the RFI sleuths, 
> especially when it comes to home solar power installations.  So, our 
> dues and life memberships to ARRL should be tax deductible??
> 
> All have read my past rants on FCC shirking the responsibilities spelled 
> out in CFR47.  Now we amateurs and ARRL are tasked with some of those 
> responsibilities originally defined in  CFR47.  And all for free.......  
> Something is wrong with this picture!
> 
> Sure, FCC is severely short of funds.  And.,...... maybe ARRL has been 
> working with FCC for 20 years on.  But this is no excuse for handing 
> their own responsibilities, at no cost, off to a volunteer paid 
> organization of members.
> 
> Dave - W0LEV
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:24 PM Dave (NK7Z) <dave at nk7z.net 
> <mailto:dave at nk7z.net>> 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 <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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