Hi Wes
That is a good idea to contact Susan Collins office. My approach is that
our resources include land, water, air, and the electromagnetic
spectrum. Everybody gets their undies in a knot when someone pollutes a
stream or dumps oil on the land. Preserving the electromagnetic spectrum
is just about the same thing. and I am the canary in the coal mine as
far as these grow lights go. That is the message I want to convey .
maybe she will listen, but I doubt it.
There is a ton of 144 activity but it is all digital. I do not do much
with it now. After my 144 tower came down last year, I am currently
QRT. I have a killer setup on 222 that I am running. I had a second CW
EME contact with KL6M this past fall. I am going to stay on 222 and hope
that we can build up some activity on the band.
Dave
On 3/12/2022 12:47 PM, Wes wrote:
I'd be contacting Susan Collins. Probably pointless considering the
world situation, but marijuana growing is still a federal crime and
RFI is an FCC concern.
On anther note, a divorce caused me to abandon 2-meter EME about a
year after our QSO in 1982. Is there enough 2-meter EME activity
these days to justify building a station to seek my 10th band DXCC?
Wes N7WS
On 3/12/2022 8:02 AM, David Olean wrote:
I have to reluctantly miss the Spring Stew. All of my gear is
operational, but but I have huge amounts of RFI from grow lights. One
source is 0.75 miles South of me, while source #2 is 1.08 miles NE of
me and in line with Europe. My noise floor has increased by 22-35 dB
depending on how may grow lights are on at any given time. I can only
work very strong and loud stations. IT is so frustrating knowing that
all of my efforts to build an effective receiving setup has been
thwarted by a number of related actions. Just listening to the
cacophony of square waves is enough to give anyone a headache in just
a few minutes.
The grow lights have been a disaster for me, and, with marijuana
legalized in my state, there are new sources popping up all the time.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 3/12/2022 9:42 AM, Tree wrote:
Starts in about 19 minutes in fact.
73 Tree N6TR
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