[TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site

Al Kozakiewicz akozak at hourglass.com
Fri Aug 14 11:11:15 EDT 2015


Local jurisdictions have NO authority to regulate RFI.  That authority belongs exclusively to the federal government.  A zoning change denial that incorporates potential RFI issues into the decision would not likely stand judicial scrutiny.

Doesn't mean that you're not right to consider the issue yourself, however.  Most non-type accepted electronic equipment is either covered by Part 15 or not at all.  The latter can be a problem.  I once had a neighbor with a whole house audio system that rather nicely repeated any SSB transmissions.  To the technical minded, it's easy to understand that it wasn't MY fault that his audio amplifier was acting as a receiver; but he could not understand that.

Al
AB2ZY

-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Cal Zethmayr
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:59 AM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site

Our North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club (NOARC) is about to purchase a small (.3 of an acre) piece of land (mortgage company owned) at a very good price.   There is a MD's office about 100 feet from this location and an Dentist office about 300 feet from it.
Two of our members have put up the $$ to buy the property.  We got to talking at the after meeting ragchew last night. Every property owner within 300' of any part of the property will be notified of the public hearing on the zoning change from R1 to C1.  


We wonder if either the Doctor or the Dentist might object, saying our ham stations could interfere with their equipment?

Any suggestions about how much interference we might get from any of their equipment?   Or how much we might do to their equipment.

Closing on the property is in about 3 weeks.   We wonder if we should go visit the Dentist (and I know him) and the Doctor to determine what kind of equipment they have and assure them that our radiation will not interfere with them.

This bargain land may not be a bargain if there are issues with either the Dentist or the Doctor!

We will have a three HF station setup.. all 100W rigs..and a 2 meter//440 base station.(Maybe an Amp sometime in the future).  We'll have a TH11DX, a VHF/UHF non directional, and a 6 meter beam up on a 70' tower.   We'll be able to put up a couple of wire antennas, one up to 275' the other around 100'.

Pictures of the property are on our website w4aaz.org

comments anyone.

Cal Zethmayr
W4GMH

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