Why contact the ARRL? Isn the FCC responsible for enforcement of its rules regarding harmful interference?
We submitted this question to Riley Hollingsworth, Special Counsel at the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau. Riley, K4ZDH had the following response: “We do not have the staff to deal with all of these issues directly. We therefore depend upon the technical folks at ARRL to take first cut at resolving the issue and in helping the complainant define and isolate the problem. Many times what is thought to be power-line interference is actually originating from within the household or a neighbor’s property.
We submitted this question to Riley Hollingsworth, Special Counsel at the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau. Riley, K4ZDH had the following response: “We do not have the staff to deal with all of these issues directly. We therefore depend upon the technical folks at ARRL to take first cut at resolving the issue and in helping the complainant define and isolate the problem.
