[K3CAL] RF Interference

[Edwin A Noell Jr]

What d'ya know . . . You can get more than one kind of buzz from growing 
pot!


On 01/24/2015 10:48 AM, Rich Weaver wrote:
> **Should you be eligible for this program (or not)...Sad smile**
> **Marijuana grow-lights cause problems for ham-radio operators**
>
> The marijuana industry and Uncle Sam haven't been on the same page for 
> 80 years, but these days, in a unique bit of weirdness, it's not the 
> U.S. Department of Justice that could create a problem for pot 
> growers: It's the Federal Communications Commission.
>
> The FCC regulates the country's electronic communications, which is 
> relevant because it turns out that, bizarrely, light ballasts used in 
> the growing of cannabis emit radio-frequency interference that screws 
> up amateur-radio transmissions being sent by local ham operators, a 
> licensed, legally protected practice.
>
> In a March 12 letter to the commission, the American Radio Relay 
> League, the national association for amateur radio, complained that 
> interference from grow lights was greatest in the medium- and 
> high-frequency bands between 1.8 and 30 megahertz, and that it comes 
> in no small amount.
>
> "The level of conducted emissions from this [Lumatek LK1000 grow 
> light] is so high that, as a practical matter, one RF ballast operated 
> in a residential environment would create preclusive interference to 
> Amateur radio HF communications throughout entire neighborhoods," 
> wrote general counsel Christopher Imlay to acting chief of the FCC 
> Spectrum Enforcement Division John Poutasse in the hopes the agency 
> would halt sales.
>
>
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