ARLA/CLUSTER: ARRL queixa-se à FCC sobre a comercialização de dispositivos de iluminação RF

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 ARRL complains to FCC about marketing of RF lighting devices

The ARRL has filed a formal complaint with the FCC, alleging that The
Home Depot home improvement chain has been illegally marketing certain
RF-ballast lighting devices in violation of FCC Part 18 rules

Accompanying the League’s July 14 letter to FCC Enforcement Bureau
Spectrum Enforcement Division Chief Bruce Jacobs and Office of
Engineering and Technology Laboratory Division Chief Rashmi Doshi was
a 20-page report prepared by the ARRL Laboratory’s Mike Gruber, W1MG.

His report outlines four instances in which The Home Depot sold
non-consumer-rated RF lighting devices having far greater emission
limits and intended for commercial use to consumers who specifically
voiced an intention to use the devices in residential settings. In
some cases, information included with devices sold to consumers
indicated that they were for commercial use only, but not all products
sold included such a notice.

“Clearly Home Depot’s marketing and sale of non-consumer ballasts is
not adequate to ensure compliance with FCC Part 18 requirements,”
Gruber’s report concluded. The ARRL asked the FCC to “investigate and
commence and enforcement proceeding” regarding The Home Depot’s retail
marketing and sale of RF lighting devices in the US.

In its letter, the League noted that it has received numerous
complaints from the Amateur Radio community of “significant noise” in
the bands between 1.8 and 30 MHz from so-called “grow light” ballasts
and other RF lighting devices regulated under FCC Part 15 and Part 18
rules.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-complains-to-fcc-about-the-home-depot-s-marketing-of-rf-lighting-devices

FCC Part 18 Marketing Violations By Home Depot
http://www.arrl.org/files/media/News/Home%20Depot%20Ballast%20
Report%202015%20Gruber%20Filing%20Copy.pdf