FCC

If you’ve been keeping up with your licensing requirements lately, you already know that the FCC’s grandfathering rules for RF exposure evaluations are a thing of the past. Every amateur station in the US—no matter if you are running QRP in the backyard or a full legal-limit shack—is now required to perform and maintain an RF exposure evaluation. When I first sat down to audit my three active home transmitters, I dreaded the process. If you’ve ever tried to do these calculations manually or even plugged numbers into a standard web calculator, you know exactly what a pain it can be. ...