ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines to Communicate RF Safety

ARRL RF Safety Committee Develops New Guidelines to Communicate RF Safety

Radio amateurs now have a new tool from ARRL to help answer questions about their stations. Neighbours of amateur radio operators are sometimes concerned about transmissions and radio frequency exposure from amateur stations.

The ARRL RF Safety Committee, with their international counterparts at the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS), and the Swedish Society of Radio Amateurs (SSA), has developed a new set of guidelines to help amateurs interact with and talk to their neighbours about RF exposure.

Chairman of the ARRL RF Safety Committee Greg Lapin, N9GL, said the new informational PDF, Helping Amateurs Interact with Neighbors Asking About Radio Transmissions, was developed after a year of discussions about RF safety.

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HAMSCI Releases First Solar Eclipse Findings

If you participated in the Solar Eclipse QSO Party this past autumn, yours is among the 300 logs that are helping yield data for the HamSCI team led by Nathaniel Frissell [Frizz-Zell] W2NAF. The QSO Party helped flesh out the overall picture, along with data collection from more than 7 million QSOs spotted on the air and a variety of experiments to study the solar eclipse's effects on the ionosphere.

As HamSCI prepares for another QSO Party and more observations during the total solar eclipse over North America on April 8th, the team has released its earliest findings from October. The detailed technical document contains a variety of charts and graphic elements that expand on these observations. Please visit our website, arnewsline.org, and click on the tab that says "EXTRA."

The full illustrated HamSCI document - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58b08985be65947bf171e05e/t/6572891a465c9718794ada94/1702005019082/Post+Annular+Eclipse+Release+2+December+2023+with+Graphics.pdf