[TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site

[Patrick Greenlee]

Intended as mostly humorous mostly off topic digression...

As a young  lad who could only afford really cheap super regen receivers 
for an RC airplane operating on CB freqs I really hated it when the 
local sawbones fired up his 27 MHz diathermy machine and forced my hours 
of work (in constructing the airplane and mopping floors to get the 
bucks to buy it and the RC equipment) to get to watch it in a vertical 
spiral dive auger into Terra firma (AKA cumulus dirt.)

Patrick      NJ5G

On 8/14/2015 2:28 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
> Cal-
>
> Has anyone taken a good SW receiver to the property with a reasonable HF
> antenna and listened to the local noise level at different times?
>
> Part 15 diathermy machines are said to be the worst RFI generators.
> Theoretically you can force the Part 15 user to stop using it if it causes
> interference to your licensed system, but have fun convincing a doctor or
> dentist to turn off their revenue generator!
>
> 73,
> Steve
> N6SJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Al
> Kozakiewicz
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:11 AM
> To: Cal Zethmayr; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Medical offices near possible new club site
>
> 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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