Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2017 Quietly Killed Off

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Well, you're partly correct: No one out-publishes the ARRL, no one!

Books, QST... Great.

Not good on the rest.

de NK2U

 

They never asked me and they also didn't ask my neighbors so I wonder how the League, of which I am a member, can be so disingenuous as to say they represent the very people they claim to help.

 

Why do people even buy into these HOA crap and then bitch about it latter. Dont buy in them and find somewhere else in the first place. I do not want to have some body tell me what I can and cant do on the land I paid for so I dont buy into these HOAs

 

Where might we find the ERP limits of a ham license ?

 

http://www.arrl.org/part-97-text

 

Apparently you have found it would you care to share the section of part 97 that applies ?

 

Good riddance, IMHO. The bill as passed by the Senate would have allowed HOAs to kill ham radio in their communities. We need a new bill with strong protections for hams' operating rights.

 

It's part of the general test. The limits you are allowed, by frequency range. Hence my point that most of us should be able to figure it out.

http://www.arrl.org/the-fcc-s-new-rf-exposure-regulations#table1

My attempt at education deleted.

--Shane
KD6VXI

 

The only Part 97 bands that have true ERP limits are: 2200m, 630m, 60m and 4mm.

 

Opened your link and reviewed every line twice it's a little late here in the East so may have missed it but unable to find ERP in that document.
Let's see if this will help out .....
§97.313 Transmitter power standards. (a) An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications. (b) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 1.5 kW PEP.

You will find some restriction for different bands if you read the entire section and there is one reference to ERP having to do with 60 meters which has been amended in recent years.

The entire text here.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title47-vol5/pdf/CFR-2010-title47-vol5-part97.pdf

 

Use a compromised antenna and get on the air! Magnetic loop antennas work inside a house even. A 2meter/440 car antenna with a mag mount on a pizza pan will work great. YOU signed the agreement about no antennas when you moved in, don't bitch about it now! I have a small lot, so I also use a compromised antenna, both in how high it is and how I had to bend it around to fit my property. The national defense does not depend on HOA antenna restriction removal nor does disaster relief. Make the best with what you can use. Look in your ARRL Antenna book about small antennas, you do have an ARRL Antenna book don't you?

 

The requirement to conduct an RF exposure evaluation is described in FCC regulation §97.13. This regulation provides a table of all amateur radio bands with a transmitted power level in watts for each band (recreated below). The regulation states that an RF environmental evaluation must be performed if the station’s power into the antenna exceeds the table value for the band of operation. The power into the antenna is specified as peak envelope power (PEP).

If an evaluation is required, §97.13 states that it must be performed as prescribed by §1.1307(b), but for amateur radio stations the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) Bulletin 65 provides the best guidance for complying with §1.1307(b) evaluation methods. We will come back to OET Bulletin 65 and evaluation methods, but first let’s see whether or not an evaluation is required at all.

There ya go.

Yes all license classes have maximum exposure regulations.

--Shane
KD6VXI

 

Boo, hoo.

 

Thanks to those who worked on it. It takes a lot of money and lobbyists to get anything through the Capitol. It is always about money.

 

If you review the complaints and who complains, it's not the hams living in HOAs doing it but rather the busybody folks who DON'T live in an HOA ranting about places they DON'T live. And calling where millions choose to live "crap".