{"id":18242,"date":"2017-09-08T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=18242"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:57:41","slug":"report-vdsl-interference-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2017\/09\/08\/report-vdsl-interference-now-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Report VDSL interference NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/electromagnetic-compatibility-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSGB EMC Committee<\/a> has been investigating VDSL broadband interference on the HF amateur bands for three years now.<\/p>\n<p>This has generated a lot of historic data.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite active lobbying, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ofcom<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Openreach<\/a> contend that the 150 or so reports from 50,000 amateurs do not indicate a major problem, when viewed from the perspective of 9.5 million VDSL installations.<\/p>\n<p>To increase the amount of evidence available, the RSGB EMC Committee has set up a survey at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/GB2RS-0309A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tinyurl.com\/GB2RS-0309A<\/a> to collect current signal levels at the frequencies of VDSL band transitions.<\/p>\n<p>These measurements indicate the presence and strength of interference.<\/p>\n<p>Please fill in the survey with your current readings, even if you have reported them before, and encourage your friends to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The EMC Committee plans to present its findings at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSGB Convention<\/a> in October, then use them to persuade Openreach to take further action.<\/p>\n<p>The survey closes on 30 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last chance we have to prove how many people are affected by this interference.<\/p>\n<p>Your report could make all the difference to cleaning up the bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB EMC Committee has been investigating VDSL broadband interference on the HF amateur bands for three years now. This has generated a lot of historic data. However, despite active lobbying, Ofcom and Openreach contend that the 150 or so reports from 50,000 amateurs do not indicate a major problem, when viewed from the perspective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}