[RFI] New ARRL Mission statement > Was solar fix

Mon Jul 29 22:36:18 EDT 2024

Hi Dave E,

What you are doing is not at all what I am talking about...  I do 
exactly the same thing here, I have a relationship with the cable 
company.  I locate leaks in their system, and they fix them...  It works 
great.  I recently got contacted by one of their Network engineers about 
a very high BER on one of their amps...  We tracked it to a local ham, 
and the cable company's leaky system.  They terminated the loose drop, 
and the BER dropped to an acceptable level for them, and one more RFI 
source in my area bit the dust.

Of late, the local cable company, (get this), has, by written decree 
within the management, allowed unterminated drops on all move outs. 
They are learning that this is not working...  This is the second 
instance of this I am aware of in the last month...  So...  No grass 
roots movement needed...

Yes, again unfortunately, I think we have also lost it with the DOD as 
well...

I believe the FCC, (not all within the FCC but a good part of the FCC), 
now looks at Amateur Radio as a sort of glorified CB radio service, with 
only slightly smarter operators.  Yes that hurts...

One of the ways to change that perception is by careful orchestration of 
contact with the FCC...  We need to look like pros, we need to act like 
pros, and we need to prove we are not a dispirit group of CB operators 
to the FCC.  I believe the best way to do this is via the ARRL's efforts...
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
I never learned from a man who agreed with me. (HeinLein)

On 7/29/24 14:54, David Eckhardt wrote:
> QUOTE (DAVE, NK7Z): We are just lucky we USED to have emergency status, 
> we don't
>                                           have that anymore in the FCC's 
> eyes, so the rules are different.
> 
> We also had the attention of DoD.  Is that still in place, or has that 
> gone down with the emergency loss as well?
> 
> I hear you on a coordinated effort through ARRL.  But I have graciously 
> done several individual problems with my equipment. for hams  All have 
> been the "fault" of our power provider in the county and out of the 
> cities.  Here in N. Colorado in the county, we have a very good 
> relationship with them.  Once reported, they were on it the next day.
> 
> Are you proposing to tie my hands behind my back with such efforts?  I 
> do not charge anything for hams.  Nor do I do solar installation as they 
> are a given.
> 
> If I can't help others with my equipment and training as an EMC/RFI 
> engineer, its time for my pine box.
> 
> Dave - WØLEV
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM Dave (NK7Z) <dave at nk7z.net 
> <mailto:dave at nk7z.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I would think that we would want a single voice speaking for us.  Not a
>     bunch of discordant, non organized, not communicating between
>     themselves, citizen groups, all talking to the same companys the ARRL
>     has spent a few years creating working relationships with, and then one
>     of them threatening an entity with a lawsuit.  The first time that
>     happens, is the last time the threatened entity, (and maybe all of
>     them), talks to the ARRL or anyone else for that matter, without a
>     lawyer reviewing everything said and done.  At that point the focus
>     shifts from RFI corrections, to a game of legal cover ass...
> 
>     I guarantee you-- someone sometime soon, will threaten a lawsuit to one
>     of the companies the ARRL is currently working with, and crap up the
>     relationship the ARRL has worked so hard to create...
> 
>     That is why you discourage people from forming grass roots, anti RFI
>     groups, that are not affiliated with the biggest dog the Amateur
>     community has right now, the ARRL.  This HAS to be a coordinated effort!
> 
>     We need to wake up and realize that the cat is already out of the bag,
>     some of the foreign, (and probably some of the American manufacturers),
>     have already discovered they can submit a test article to a lab, obtain
>     a pass, get FCC blessing, and then remove components and sell the "new"
>     device without a low pass filter in it, saving them tons of money,
>     (while spraying RFI all over), until they get caught.
> 
>     We are no longer in the PROACTIVE FCC world we grew up in, we are
>     now in
>     the REACTIVE FCC world that exists today, and will NEVER go back to
>     PROACTIVE FCC again...
> 
>     I suspect if the FCC were to hit the companies doing switch game with
>     meaningful punishments, (read that as millions of bucks in fines, and a
>     hiatus on importation, or sale into the US markets, for at least one
>     year), things would get somewhat better.
> 
>     The fact of the matter is we are small potatoes to the FCC, and the
>     vendors.  We are just lucky we USED to have emergency status, we don't
>     have that anymore in the FCC's eyes, so the rules are different.  We
>     need to adapt to the new environment...  We all know what happens to
>     species that fail to adapt...
> 
>     73, and thanks,
>     Dave (NK7Z)
>     https://www.nk7z.net <https://www.nk7z.net>
>     ARRL Volunteer Examiner
>     ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
>     ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources
>     I never learned from a man who agreed with me. (HeinLein)
> 
>     On 7/29/24 09:24, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
>      > Why would we want to discourage people from actually organizing a
>     grass
>      > roots movement and make our case heard.
> 
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