> Hi Ken, > > Come on guys, these flames are burning me :-) > > I'm just advocating sound engineering judgement. I understand that a user > would have to take "adequate measures" if his/her appliance was messing up > the neighbor's "I Love Lucy" reception. I understand that those > "adequate measures" would include fixing the emissions or turning the unit > off. > > The 120dB safety margin is there. We can't argue whether it is right or > wrong. It's a fact. I agree that it would be wrong for anybody to > abuse the safety margin and willfully produce a non-compliant product. > One 911 that gets slammed by a non-compliant product would be too much. > > More to the point. > > I assume that you have a good enough background in EMC to make a sound > judgement. (probably more so than I) What would you do with a product > that you evaluated using my checklist? Would you have your company write > the check for a re-test? > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Javor [SMTP:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 3:21 PM > To: Chris Maxwell; 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org' > Subject: Re: FCC + FCC = FCC? - Outlaw > > NO!!!! > > The 120 dB safety margin comment and point number 7 are self-consistent > but > consistently WRONG! > > If you screw up "I Love Lucy" reception, regardless of your subjective > assessment of the nuisance value that represents, you are in violation of > not only the philosophy of FCC emissions control, but also the verbiage > attached to the FCC sticker that says regardless of measured compliance, > if > it causes interference, fix it or turn it off. > > I reiterate, the fact that your product could be out not 30 - 40% but 30 - > 40 dB has no safety impact to a non-antenna connected receiver. But if it > interferes with either I Love Lucy, or a cell phone calling in 911, you > are > violating the spirit and letter of the law. > >
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