Rob,
What if the businesses were told what their possible risk is when they install
products known to cause RFI to licensed radio services such as Fire, Rescue,
Police and others?
Most folks knowledgeable about the frequencies used might realize the actual
level of risk a dismiss the risk factor, but those not familiar with RF issues
could be persuaded if told the possible risk. If RFI interferes with public
safety radio users in conducting their life saving response and action and this
RFI results in injury or death to the public, any vendor or installer aware of
this risk could be held liable for selling and installing products that cause
the interference. Amateur Radio could possibly be just the canary in the RFI
mine raising the issue before something terrible happens.
Maybe a well written letter from a representative national organization
explaining in general terms what risks are involved when products cause RFI to
public safety radios could persuade an installer to work with their vendor to
clean up their product to reduce their liability risk.
Just a thought.
73,
de ed -K0iL
-----Original Message-----
From: RFI On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson
"Some of you guys must live in great places with lots of contractors looking
for work. We tried to add an RFI clause to our furnace/AC install. No one would
even give us a bid until we removed the request for the RFI clause...."
You've lost sight of the way people in business to make money by minimizing
expenses (time being one of them), and have utterly no knowledge of shortwave
radio see this. To executives in this industry and contractors, shortwave
radio people appear to be just a handful of goofy old kooks.
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