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from: Ed Vance
date: 2013-07-07 22:08:00
subject: RF Exposure

When I read about the FCC wanting comments on
RF Exposure, I thought about it a bit and the thought
came to me that RF Oscillators are in lots and lots of
electronic things.

Sure they are low power but they can radiate
"measurable" RF.   

When I was a child I use to sit near the
large radio listening to shows every night.

Some times I would be by myself and turn
the dial from station to station just to
watch the Green Eye Tube blink.

That's a lot of RF Exposure! and I was just a little kid.

I forget now what it was that I learned had a
crystal oscillator frequency in the 20 meter band,
but after I learned about it I tuned my RCVR
to that frequency and heard some noise.

Also I rmemeber when I had a all mode 2 meter rig
I heard interference in the lower part of the band
from the cable TV wire that runs along side my QTH.
I don't have a cable service, but I could hear their RF Leak.

Oh Yes, Computers have crystal oscillators too!
IIRC the Commodore 64 oscillators frequency is 1 Mc/s.

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