{"id":4973,"date":"2021-04-20T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohd3ares.org\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2021-04-20T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:30:21","slug":"updated-radio-frequency-exposure-rules-become-effective-on-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"Updated Radio Frequency Exposure Rules Become Effective on May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ARRL released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/w1aw-bulletins-archive\/ARLB011\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARLB011<\/a> reminding amateurs that updated Radio Frequency Exposure rules become effective on 3 May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>These are the same rules that have been in effect since 1997. The primary change is that amateur radio stations are no longer categorically exempt from performing an evaluation. The RF Exposure limits have not changed.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/rf-exposure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARRL RF Exposure website.<\/a> \u00a0Resources available on that page are links to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/Technology\/RFsafetyCommittee\/RFXFAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARRL FAQ<\/a> their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/Technology\/RFsafetyCommittee\/RF%20Exposure%20and%20You.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>RF Exposure and You<\/em> document<\/a>, an extract from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/Technology\/tis\/info\/pdf\/RF%20Exposure%20Chapter%205.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the chapter on conducting a station evaluation<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/Technology\/tis\/info\/pdf\/rfex1_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forms you can use<\/a>, and an online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakewashingtonhamclub.org\/resources\/rf-exposure-calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RF Exposure Calculator<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another <a href=\"http:\/\/hintlink.com\/power_density.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RF Exposure calculator by VP9KF<\/a> that displays the info in a different way including discussion of duty cycle of different modes.<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to submit any information with the FCC.\u00a0 Simply complete the documentation and file it with your license documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ARRL states that they will be updating their site with any applicable changes as they are identified.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ARRL released ARLB011 reminding amateurs that updated Radio Frequency Exposure rules become effective on 3 May 2021. These are the same rules that have been&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrl","category-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 11:17:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohd3ares.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}