All,
I was able to track down the general location of an RFI problem I've been hearing since December. It's in the vicinity of 3 new homes on a cul-de-sac not far from my QTH. I'm told the pulse noise sounds like the RFI from an invisible electric fence.
At this point, it's hard to tell which home it's coming from with the HF mobile because the signal strength is overwhelming at the location. I'll have to get up close with a portable AM radio; I'll probably need some shielding around it.
Wish I knew exactly what the noise was; I'd hate to 'accuse' a neighbor of causing RFI and have it turn out to be the power company. I have a recording if anyone is interested.
The question is, what to do in the worse case scenerio if the home owner decides not to take action to remedy the problem? Anyone on the reflector been through this before?
Apologies for the off-topic note -Please reply direct...
Tony -K2MO
IIRC, you can have the FCC "persuade" them to get it fixed since it's interfering with a licensed service. The ARRL website has some information which you might find useful: http://www.arrl.org/news/rfi/neighbors.html 73, Jim KQ6EA
--- Tony dxdx@optonline.net wrote:
All,
I was able to track down the general location of an RFI problem I've been hearing since December. It's in the vicinity of 3 new homes on a cul-de-sac not far from my QTH. I'm told the pulse noise sounds like the RFI from an invisible electric fence.
At this point, it's hard to tell which home it's coming from with the HF mobile because the signal strength is overwhelming at the location. I'll have to get up close with a portable AM radio; I'll probably need some shielding around it.
Wish I knew exactly what the noise was; I'd hate to 'accuse' a neighbor of causing RFI and have it turn out to be the power company. I have a recording if anyone is interested.
The question is, what to do in the worse case scenerio if the home owner decides not to take action to remedy the problem? Anyone on the reflector been through this before?
Apologies for the off-topic note -Please reply direct...
Tony -K2MO
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Figure out which neighbor has a dog...start there...
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Jerzycke" kq6ea@pacbell.net To: "Tony" dxdx@optonline.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:35 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: RFI source found - sort of
IIRC, you can have the FCC "persuade" them to get it fixed since it's interfering with a licensed service. The ARRL website has some information which you might find useful: http://www.arrl.org/news/rfi/neighbors.html 73, Jim KQ6EA
--- Tony dxdx@optonline.net wrote:
All,
I was able to track down the general location of an RFI problem I've been hearing since December. It's in the vicinity of 3 new homes on a cul-de-sac not far from my QTH. I'm told the pulse noise sounds like the RFI from an invisible electric fence.
At this point, it's hard to tell which home it's coming from with the HF mobile because the signal strength is overwhelming at the location. I'll have to get up close with a portable AM radio; I'll probably need some shielding around it.
Wish I knew exactly what the noise was; I'd hate to 'accuse' a neighbor of causing RFI and have it turn out to be the power company. I have a recording if anyone is interested.
The question is, what to do in the worse case scenerio if the home owner decides not to take action to remedy the problem? Anyone on the reflector been through this before?
Apologies for the off-topic note -Please reply direct...
Tony -K2MO
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