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Old 13th Jul 2019, 23:25
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https://www.faa.gov/airports/environ...Guide-2018.pdf

I do know V.C. Bird Intl., Antigua, has installed a large solar array alongside the approach to RWY07. No ILS there, but there is a VOR (same radio band) on the other side of the runway.

Most references I see to RFI from solar array inverters are very localized (as in, within the same building) - and usually it can be suppressed with ferrite chokes on the inverter cabling, and proper grounding of the inverter (to the literal GROUND, NOT to the building - which can just turn the whole building into an antenna!)
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