{"id":1715,"date":"2020-02-18T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T12:57:47","slug":"led-street-lights-raise-rf-pollution-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/led-street-lights-raise-rf-pollution-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"LED street lights raise RF pollution fears&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<h1>LED street lights raise RF pollution fears<\/h1>\n<p>ABC TV News report on fears in Toledo, Ohio, that the installation new LED street lights will generate considerable RF pollution and interference<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Universe is full of noise,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Mike Kehr WA8SYD<\/strong>, an instructor for amateur radio licensing, said. &#8220;When you turn the radio on and hear that it has sound and there&#8217;s no signal there, that&#8217;s the noise of the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The noise that the amateur radio community is concerned about is LED lights.<\/p>\n<p>Kehr says the lights make a lot of electrical radio noise and, &#8220;that noise can rise to the level of actual interference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the TV news report at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.13abc.com\/content\/news\/Are-LED-Lights-A-Threat-To-Communication-567847131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.13abc.com\/content\/news\/Are-LED-Lights-A-Threat-To-Communication-567847131.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LED street lights raise RF pollution fears ABC TV News report on fears in Toledo, Ohio, that the installation new LED street lights will generate considerable RF pollution and interference &#8220;The Universe is full of noise,&#8221;\u00a0Mike Kehr WA8SYD, an instructor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/led-street-lights-raise-rf-pollution-fears\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}