Unfortunately there are two parts to this, legal and social. Your neighbor may have a device that is causing all sorts of illegal interference. Unfortunately your neighbor probably will not want to stop using his new $$$ whatever. For him it is working fine. So how do you get the interference mitigated without making enemies and starting a neighborhood war? My guess is that the rest of the neighbors will take his side not yours. No easy answer. The real solution is for manufacturers to design, test, and manufacture non RF polluting products. But because of lax standards and enforcement and the consumer market emphasis on low price will continue to foist these noisy products on us.
My issue today is how do I keep from bringing a problem maker into my own home. Unfortunately there is no way to select non RF generating products. The specs don't say, the dealer doesn't know, the manufacturer isn't telling even if they know and chances are they have neither designed nor tested with RF issues in mind. It's a dead horse being beaten now so enough bandwidth has been wasted. Anyone have a source of wood powered appliances? David K0LUM At 7:39 PM -0500 1/20/12, Don Wilhelm wrote: >OTOH, There are FCC limits for unintentional radiators too. Yes >proving that those devices are radiating and making a case for FCC >action may indeed be difficult, but from what I have found from >various posts are that Plasma TVs may make a good "first test case". >I cannot initiate anything myself because I do not have the problem >- the nearest neighbor is 1/ mile away and does not have a plasma TV. > >73, >Don W3FPR > >On 1/20/2012 6:37 PM, Sandy wrote: >>Some interesting information on some of those links! One of the BIG >>problems we face is what I call the "digital" mindset. What I mean by this >>is some of the late technology telemetry devices that use something other >>than what used to be called "analog" transmission and reception systems. >>The "digital" engineers don't seem to understand the "analog" RF world and >>the havoc some of the digital devices are causing, especially in increasing >>the background noise levels and EMI levels. >> >>Take just ONE factor like the "CFL" lamps. A lot of these are operating in >>the 20-60 Khz. region and generating a plethora of harmonics that cannot be >>filtered out! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
