[RFI] New ARRL Mission statement > Was solar fix

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

I think we have learned from the last couple of Presidential elections 
that anything is possible.

Why would we want to discourage people from actually organizing a grass 
roots movement and make our case heard.  Maybe the ARRL is going to take 
a stronger stance or are we just getting more lip service from the upper 
brass.  It is like the anti FT mode crowd that attempts to discourage 
people from operating a mode that they like.  A mode that is vastly more 
popular than any other currently.

There is nothing stopping these products from being purchased, used or 
installed.  Two or three people or 10 will not make the difference.  For 
every Solar installation that "we" fix, how many dirty ones were 
installed yesterday or the last month.  All of that noise is still 
there.  It raises the noise floor.  It impacts users of the bands that 
probably have no idea how to solve it.

We do not educate people very well on what to look for and how to report 
noise.  What would it take for the FCC to wake up?  10 reports a day 
100, 1000?  I bet they get very few a month.

There has been a change in the attitude of those attempting to solve 
power line RFI.  I put in a complaint to a system that I am not on and 
the man in charge came to my house and has been very helpful.  20 years 
ago it probably would have taken a complaint to the FCC and Public 
Utilities Commission.  Maybe this is not true for all areas but it does 
seem true for parts of Colorado where I continue to good things.

K3LR-It is pretty hard to take out politics from the equation. The ARRL 
is political, the FCC is political, Congress is political and most every 
one of us is political.  Even selecting contest managers seems to be 
political.

When we quit we have lost.

W0MU

On 7/27/2024 11:32 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 7/27/2024 9:52 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
>>
>> While getting the FCC to change may be hard, I think we need to try.
>
> While I admire your attitude, and share it about many issues, Ed Hare 
> is absolutely right -- this is not one we can ever hope to win. Ed and 
> I both have long followed the politics of this -- Ed from the 
> perspective of being the League's presence on the national and 
> international level of EMC, and me from the much broader perspective 
> of electoral politics in general and the overwhelming influence of big 
> money that has increased exponentially during my lifetime. We are not, 
> and never will be, even a flea on the pimple of the ass of the beast.
>
> There was once a wise man who taught us to fight for what we can 
> change, accept what we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. 
> (I'm paraphrasing, and have forgotten which wise man it was.)
>
> What we CAN do is what W0LEV and NA6O have been doing -- testing 
> suspect products before buying -- and taking defective stuff back to 
> vendors and getting our money back. And talking to mfrs of noisy 
> products when they are accessible; Ed can tell us about that. At least 
> 20 years ago, I found someone intelligent at Lutron to talk to about 
> their dimmers, some of them were much quieter than other products.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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