Friday, March 30, 2018

Threats to Amateur Radio

If there isn't enough noise already...

The Threats to Radiocommunication

IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie G3BJ looks at the threat to the RF Spectrum posed by pollution from Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles equipment 

WPT (EV) is the technology that will allow cars to be charged without the need for connecting leads. At present it seems that there is a real prospect that these devices – destined to be installed in home garages – will obscure radio communications in the home environment.

Read Don's post at
http://www.g3bj.com/the-threats-to-radiocommunication/

He links to two briefing documents: 

Unwanted emissions in the spurious domain from Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles on frequencies allocated to the Amateur Services
http://www.g3bj.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WPT-brief-for-MS-v4-200318-1.pdf

Wireless Power Transmission for Electric Vehicles – WPT(EV) - A brief overview
http://www.g3bj.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WPT-for-administrations_v2.pdf

Tnx Southgate