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[KB6NU] Hey! Enough with the noise!
KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Hey! Enough with the noise! Posted: 16 Jun 2016 01:17 PM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu...m_medium=email The FCCs Office of Engineering and Technology has just issued ET DocketÂ*No. 16-191. The documentÂ*announces an investigation into a perceived problem with increased RF noise levels and requests input from interested parties. Who is more interested in this issue than hams? The document starts out: The FCCâs Technological Advisory Council (TAC), an advisory group to the FCC operating under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, is investigating changes and trends to the radio spectrum noise floor to determine if there is an increasing noise problem, and if so, the scope and quantitative evidence of such problem(s), and how a noise study should be performed. In this public notice, the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) announces the TACâs public inquiry, seeking comments and answers to questions below for the TAC about radio spectrum noise. The TAC is requesting input to help answer questions about the study of changes to the spectrum noise floor over the past 20 years. Noise in this context denotes unwanted radio frequency (RF) energy from man-made sources. Like many spectrum users, TAC members expect that the noise floor in the radio spectrum is rising as the number of devices in use that emit radio energy grows. However, in search for concrete evidence of increased noise floors, we have found limited available quantitative data to support this presumption. We are looking to find ways to add to the available data in order to answer important questions for the FCC regarding this topic. A list of questions follows. These include: Is there a noise problem? Where doees the problem exist? Is there quantitative evidence of the overall increase in the total integrated noise floor acrossÂ*various segments of the radio frequency spectrum? How should a noise study be performed? Each of these questions has a number of sub-questions. The deadline for comments isÂ*August 11, 2016. The post Hey! Enough with the noise! appeared first on KB6NUs Ham Radio Blog. /////////////////////////////////////////// Amateur radio in the newsin Hawaii Posted: 16 Jun 2016 11:44 AM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu...m_medium=email HoÊ»okipa âpill boxâ has roots in radio.Â*Members of the Maui Amateur Radio Club will participate in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, on Saturday, June 25 in a field between the HÄna Highway and the ocean, just past Hoâokipa Beach Park.Â*Field Day, an event started by the Amateur Radio Relay League in 1933, is the largest emergency communication event in the world. Field Day also showcases the science and skill of Amateur Radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend. The club was established in 1936 and claims to be Hawaiis first amateur radio club. CommunicationâsÂ*last line. LIHUE â The highlight of Tad Miuraâs experience as a ham radio operator happened in 2010, on a particularly slow day in Hawaiiâs amateur radio world. In fact, had Miura not been on his radio, the ham operator attempting to communicate with Hawaii from the International Space Station may have passed over unnoticed. But instead, the two of them were able to log the contact in their records, and had about eight minutes of uninterrupted conversation before the International Space Station orbited out of range. âHe knew about the Navy base here, about PMRF (Pacific Missile Range Facility), and he said heâd been there,â Miura said. âSo we were able to have a conversation about that.â The post Amateur radio in the newsin Hawaii appeared first on KB6NUs Ham Radio Blog. |
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