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IARU to take action on radio spectrum pollution

Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by G4TUT/SK2022, Oct 2, 2019.

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  1. N4QX

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    In February, while you were sitting behind a keyboard arguing that symbol rate restrictions are good things, Dave was at the Conference Preparatory Meeting, moving the ball on 47 GHz toward continued exclusive amateur use and away from the last die-hards who want to reassign the band to high density terrestrial mobile.

    I know; I was there.
     
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  2. SM0AOM

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    The IARU and the rest of the amateur radio community
    need to join forces with other users that are affected by radio interference and noise, because alone we are not taken seriously.

    A close ally may become the radio scientific community, and also the military radio users.

    Commercial users also are becoming concerned about interference from electronic equipment, as there has been interference reported on aviation and public safety VHF and UHF frequencies.

    However, on lower frequencies, the interest is spotty at best.

    Recently, I have been involved in studying the interference potentials from LED-based lighting appliances and billboards, and also from solar energy equipment on behalf of the National Transport Authority.

    Preliminary results show that current certification requirements are not sufficient to fully protect weak-signal VHF communications.
    Also, the aggregation aspects of having large amounts of appliances within a small volume have largely been overlooked.

    This does however only take into account equipment and appliances that actually fulfill the CE or FCC certification requirements.
    Unfortunately, many appliances today carry "fake" CE markings, and are much worse than the requirements.

    On HF it is highly unlikely that any support could be obtained from the Authorities. Their general view is that HF has become patently obsolete.

    The last bastion probably was the German Authorities that into recent times enforced HF receiving interference complaints with the justification that freedom of information also required foreign HF broadcasts to be received reasonably interference-free.
    In later years, this policy was abandoned due to lack of interest in HF broadcasting.

    In most countries, amateur radio EMI complaints have the lowest priorities. Resource priorities and a general weariness of radio amateurs are among the reasons.

    73/
    Karl-Arne
    SM0AOM
     
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  3. KY5U

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    Here, have a cookie.
     
  4. GW0PZZ

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    Stop China from exporting its crap to the world that would be a step in the right direction. Well until some other country starts doing it in there place.
     
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  5. SM0AOM

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    The main problem is not China exporting, but other being so cheap that they are buying the products.

    Very few consumers (and a fair share of professionals) are prepared to fully pay what EMC compliance really costs...

    73/
    Karl-Arne
    SM0AOM
     
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  7. KY5U

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    Bonnie, you need to meet AB2RA, a real "wireless girl".
     
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  8. N1OOQ

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    I'd like to see some kind of organization that does compliance checking. Not for certification, which is easy enough to sidestep after the fact, but something like random checks. Obviously, it would be a huge effort and expen$ive. Passing products would get listed, like UL.

    A man can dream, anyway.
     
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  9. KL7AJ

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    Hi Kar-Arne.....I concur 100% with your comments on the scientific community. I do a lot of instrumentation experiments in support of HAARP and other entities, and I think these would be powerful allies.
     
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  10. KR3DX

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    Maybe the IARU could ally with the broadcasters........there's nothing like BIG MONEY to get your point across........mediumwave AM broadcasting suffers the most from interference by these unintentional radiators, the vast majority of which seem to be switching power supplies. Of course, this would do very little to reduce interference that comes directly from ISM devices, but it would be a good start........
     
  11. VK3VM

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    No its not the cookies that I am raising concerns with - Its the expense-account cigar-smoking at meetings in far away lands such as Egypt and the funds/resources needed to send people physically to these conferences.

    The IARU significantly underwrites costs of Australians attending conferences.... and we are not alone. The costs must be significant !

    If rather than physical presence perhaps modern E-Facilities were used then perhaps the $10M (which is extremely over inflated) to start acting professionally could be raised? There is only so much that Amateurs and Amateur-ego can do!

    Sometimes Professionals who stake their business and reputations on success need to be employed to achieve better outcomes. Amateurs are Amateurs; while we continue to think small and think that we can do this and resource this ourselves we will be walked all over ...

    The best example is J.K. Rowling on this subject; mediocre books on mediocre subjects - but the money she spent using professional publicist(s) created a phenomenon.
     
    Last edited: Oct 7, 2019
  12. KY5U

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    You is preachin to the choir, reverend.
     
  13. MM0IMC

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    Ofcom in the UK as useless, when it comes to such things!
     
  14. K8LCS

    K8LCS Ham Member QRZ Page

    Our Completely Ineffective bought-and-paid-for Congress could easily pass a bill to have random checks done
    at taxpayer supported technical colleges and back that up with tariffs for non-compliance........
    IF they worked for WE THE PEOPLE.....
     

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