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FCC Orders a Brooklyn Man To Turn Off His Bitcoin Miner Because It Was Interfering With T-Mobile's Wireless Network (arstechnica.com)
A New York City resident was ordered to turn off his bitcoin miner after the Federal Communications Commission discovered that it was interfering with T-Mobile's wireless network. From a report: After receiving a complaint from T-Mobile about interference to its 700MHz LTE network in Brooklyn, New York, FCC agents in November 2017 determined that radio emissions in the 700MHz band were coming from the residence of a man named Victor Rosario. "When the interfering device was turned off the interference ceased," the FCC's enforcement bureau told Rosario in a "Notification of Harmful Interference" yesterday. "You identified the device as an Antminer S5 Bitcoin Miner. The device was generating spurious emissions on frequencies assigned to T-Mobile's broadband network and causing harmful interference." The FCC told Rosario that continued interference with T-Mobile's network while operating the device would be a violation of federal laws "and could subject the operator to severe penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary fines, in rem arrest action to seize the offending radio equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment."
The letter states he can operate it if he fixes the interference. TFS makes it sound like the FCC won't let him mine bitcoin at all.
If the miner had its own tinfoil hat, there wouldn't have been any interference!
Only if it was grounded.
Pretty much all commercially sold electronic equipment needs to be FCC certified for sale in the US specifically because they can cause interference like this. See https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd... specifically the sections on unintentional and incidental radiators.
Pretty much anything electronic can create RF emissions. See unintentional and incidental radiators at https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd...
Just about everything emits broad-spectrum, just most objects are pretty quiet. For example, the radio astronomers at Green Bank WV had issues with the construction of their new telescopes in the late 1990s, because the spark plugs in the trucks of the construction workers coming into the site emitted enough radio that the other dishes would pick it up as they drove by. It doesn't have to have an antenna.
You have obviously never filed an interference complaint with the FCC
I used to be able to hear my neighbors shitty CB radio plus linear through my landline, TV, radio and microwave oven.
I eventually put a pin through his coax, which apparently burned out his linear. Ha Ha!
Uncle Charlie is useless and basically toothless. They only wrote the letter because TMobile was involved. Unless you have a HAM licence to protect you can, more or less, ignore them.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Because this — policing spectrum — is their job. Note, they didn't tell him, he must spend equal amounts of electricity mining all cryptocurrencies...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
All the devices you list are part 15, they are required to accept all interference and that guy on the CB is protected unless you can show he's interfering with protected services. That 700mhz band in the story, it's a protected band and subject to the interference rules.