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echo: ham_tech
to: RAY WADE
from: JOHN STANLEY
date: 1998-02-26 12:28:00
subject: RFI

Hello Wade Ray, two ticks...*BANG*...Hello Ray Wade, sorry for the error.
Monday, 23 February 1998 10:54:31, Ray Wade wrote to John Stanley
          Subject: RFI
 RW> On (Saturday, 21 February 1998) John Stanley wrote to All...
 JS>> Special message for All! ;-(
 JS>> I have a query that must be answered before I confront a local
 JS>> neighbor...
 JS>> I am causing interference to a Sony Play-Station...
 RW> In the US, we have no obligation to provide TVI or other filters for
 RW> someone who is getting RF interference from our radio equipment. Am I to
 RW> understand in England you are *required* to do that? Here if a neighbor
 RW> claims interference, we refer them to the Federal Communication
 RW> Commission (the regulator of RF producing equipment in the US). The FCC
 RW> will mail the complainent a booklet that tells him how to identify the
 RW> source of the interference, what products (filters etc) he may have to
 RW> buy (himself) to reduce the interference and gives other factual data,
 RW> basically telling him that it is *his* problem, not the hams problem,
 RW> assuming it is a ham that causes the interference.
 RW> Also, all consumer products made for sale in the US come with a warning
 RW> label and a booklet that says the product *is* susceptable to RFI. Is
 RW> this not true for England as well?
I haven't read his manual ... *YET*
 RW> You might suggest the owner of the play station simply wrap the station
 RW> in in aluminum foil to see if that cures the problem.
:D  That's pretty much what I told him to do but instead told him to shove it
in a metal case of some description (if I had it my way, it would have been 6
foot under too).
Cheers for the information.
Stay Healthy 'n Wealthy!
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(~@=@~) John Stanley - Whitley Bay, Thursday, 26 February 1998 at 12:28.
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