[RFI] K2MO Solar Panel RFI Issue: Problem Solved!

[Steve Dyer W1SRD]

Let's try really hard to keep political OPINIONS off this list and keep 
it focused on useful technical RFI discussions.
Steve
W1SRD


On 7/25/2024 8:34 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
> Small Government, what is that?  How about those in charge of the FCC 
> determined that enforcement was not a priority and diverted those fund 
> elsewhere. They could decide that enforcement was a priority today and 
> do something about it.  If the "small government"  can hire 87k agents 
> to come after us peons, it could find money to fund enforcement.
>
> When has our government been small in the last 50 years?  Never. The 
> US Government has spent 5 trillion dollars so far this year but we 
> can't build a border wall, the Pentagon accidentally gave Ukraine 6 
> billion dollars and billions and billions of our tax dollars wasted on 
> a myriad of BS studies, and pork laden projects hidden inside bills 
> that are 1000's of pages long.  Maybe some of it could be diverted to 
> the Secret Service before someone actually gets killed.
>
> The FCC could do a lot of things if it wanted to.  It would just have 
> to be a priority of the administration.  These top level bureaucrats 
> seem to think they have more power than congress. When they sold off 
> all of the public airwaves what did they do with the money?  It 
> certainly was not put back into enforcement or probably the FCC at 
> all.  Even with the Supreme Court ruling regarding the agencies 
> withing the government, OSHA, EPA, FCC, et al.... nothing will 
> probably change.
>
> Every chart I can find on gov't spending since WWII shows a pretty 
> steep climb every year.  Terms like small government is just rhetoric 
> to charge up the voters.  The FCC of course would blame the 
> administration or congress.  It is what they do.
>
> Why has the ARRL failed to really lobby congress on this?  Does the 
> ARRL want to become the enforcement arm of the ham bands and get paid 
> for it?  RFI folks at the ARRL are a huge help but there is no outcry 
> about the continued increase of noise in populated areas all from crap 
> that does not meet written rules.  Why is the FCC not leading the 
> charge against all these solar companies, bad products that generate 
> all sorts of crap with their switching supplies etc.
>
> We are not making enough noise (as a body of users of the airwaves) to 
> get any attention.  The same reason it has been hard to get tower 
> exemptions and antenna exemptions in HOA's.  1 million hams give or 
> take in the US but most of them are silent.
>
> If you want your blood to really boil, research what happens when the 
> Feds are called in for big fires.
>
>
> Mike W0MU
>
>
>
> On 7/19/2024 1:10 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On 7/19/2024 8:34 AM, David Eckhardt wrote:
>>>   At the FCC both enforcement
>>> and OET (Office of Engineering and Technology) has been gutted.
>>
>> This all happened 40 years ago, thanks to "small government," made 
>> worse by the increased takeover of government by big money and 
>> unlimited contributions to elected officials and those running for 
>> office.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
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