Topband: Home Depot LED bulb interference.

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Jim, K9YC is absolutely right as usual.  Another thing to do is to send  
interference reports from LED bulbs to the FCC with copies to the ARRL, 
and include the NAB  (National Association of Broadcaster) who will be 
sure to produce some public service announcements for the many member 
stations across the country.  Radio stations don't like to lose 
listeners, especially in competitive markets, and the NAB moves to 
protect them.  Can you imagine is someone called up Rush or any other 
major talk show where listeners are in the millions and said..."sorry 
Rush but I can't pick you up anymore in Wichita because my neighbor next 
door installed a bunch of these new LED lights in order to save the 
planet.  What can I do?"   Also if they are stamped and certified to 
meet part 15 and cause interference to either broadcasting or 
communication they can be recalled as a defective product. If there is 
not any remediation effort by the manufacturer, distributor, and vendor, 
the units can be banned from import into the US.

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ




On 4/6/2012 1:56 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/5/2012 9:45 AM, Jim F. wrote:
>> I will continue to use one upstairs well away from my operating
>> table turned off while operating because I like the bulb and the
>> price.
> That's a very bad move -- by buying an RF-noisy product, we cause RFI to
> ourselves and our neighbors, and we cause more RF-noisy products to be
> sold.
>
> Take it back and demand a refund. Tell them why -- but don't say ham
> radio, say that it interferes with your AM and/or FM radios.  If you
> hear it on 160M, chances are it will also be be killing an AM or FM
> table radio near the lamp.
>
> 73, Jim Brown K9YC
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