More FCC-approved hash producing consumer junk

[WV Hoopie]

Goodie, goodie!!!! I live in Orygun...........................

Craig,

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

To be clear, I hold no great faith in the FCC doing much to stop the unslaught of EMI. But if we never complain, en masse, we can just about be sure they will do nothing.

Exactly! What does it cost you to inform/complain to the FCC. The ARRL should get all their members up to speed on how to lodge RFI complaints. When the FCC gets inundated with a couple hundred thousand complaints, maybe something will happen.

Or we can just P&M here and get nothing done. 

Folks, this just came out on the ARRL website:

<<<When US Representative Greg Walden, W7EQI (R-OR), learned December 16 that he will be chairing the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet when the 112th Congress convenes in January...>>>

This is the guy we all need to contact about holding the FCC's feet to the fire regarding all these unfiltered consumer electronic devices.

First as Steve posted, we need to follow due process, i.e. attempting to work with the appliance owner (FCC will tell you do try that first) and if that fails, filing a complaint with FCC and then bringing the matter to the attention of Congressman Walden.

[W1AEX]

To be clear, I hold no great faith in the FCC doing much to stop the unslaught of EMI. But if we never complain, en masse, we can just about be sure they will do nothing.

Very true Steve. I know too many hams who simply shrug their shoulders and live with the noise. An absence of complaints to the FCC will simply indicate to them that there is no problem.

[WV Hoopie]

Another way of looking at the "State of the Art RFI"; The Fee Cee Cee, Manufacturers, and their Lobbyist have put the monkey on the consumer's back using Part 15. The consumer is guilty either way and has to suffer or rectify the RFI because of poor engineering, increasing profits, and lack of enforcement.

Most days my R-390/A's have a neighborhood noise level of 30 DB on the carrier level meters. The low power stations here in the Pacific Northwest are below the 30 DB noise level and can't be heard. Not everyone can afford larger transmitters, so at times I don't even bother lighting up the filaments of my transmitters. One trip out to the shack, turn on a receiver, check the noise level, and call it a day. Time to find something else to do!

Almost six months since I filed a complaint with the Fee Cee Cee and the noise level continues to slowly increase as the cheap China junk piles up in nearby homes.

Craig,

[K5UJ]

One thing I was doing before the latest QRT producing crapout, is operate in the mornings.  That seems to be the time when the trash noise is at a minimum.   Unfortunately mornings on the low bands pretty much means no skywave farther out than a couple hundred miles.