On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 11:08:37AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > Well, this is completely off-topic, but I wouldn't be so sure. > > I have plenty of electronic equipment here which generates an awful > > lot of interference to my sensitive radio receivers. Switch-mode > > power supplies in particular (although passengers won't be using > > those on the plane). > > > This is common. The problem is that while FCC requirements are quite > high, manufacturing standards are not, causing an awful lot of > equipment out there to create interference. But the FCC are particularly crazy paranoid about interference in the radio band. Mind you, I'm not cheering for the FCC here -- in fact that I think their restrictions on output power for private radio transmitters are hideously excessive -- but they do seem to keep a pretty tight lid on RFI generated by portable devices. Household appliances, on the other hand... -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser branden@ecn.purdue.edu | with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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