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- ARRL Bulletin 17 ARLB017
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT February 4, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB QST ARL ARLB017
- ARLB017 RF standards opposed
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- RF standards opposed
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- The ARRL has told the FCC that a proposal to adopt new standards for
- exposure to radio frequency radiation should be terminated.
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- The League said that the proposal, which would change the
- Commission's guidelines to match those adopted by the American
- National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Institute of Electrical
- and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1992, was premature, and more
- properly should have been introduced as an FCC notice of inquiry.
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- The ARRL said that the ANSI/IEEE standards were not properly
- delineated and not a proper basis for evaluating communications
- facilities. The new standards would replace less stringent
- standards adopted in 1982.
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- The League said that an FCC Report and Order in 1987 that concluded
- that amateur stations should be exempted from such RF exposure
- guidelines, because amateur stations operate only intermittently,
- and at low power levels, still applies. Only rarely, the League
- said, would amateur stations even exceed the proposed, more
- stringent 1992 ANSI/IEEE standard.
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- The League said that the FCC's proceeding should be terminated in
- favor of more study, by a more appropriate government agency, such
- as the Environmental Protection Agency, or else by an FCC notice of
- inquiry.
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- This proposal, in ET Docket 93-62, was made in the spring of 1993
- and its comment deadline has been extended several times, most
- recently to January 25, 1994, based on a request by CBS Inc. The
- reply comment deadline is February 24, 1994.
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