I once had a noise problem that I just could not locate.
Late one night I was working DX and had an amplifier I just purchased.
I was normally running 100 watts then.
My station was in the attached garage at that time and there was a window
with a rather thin curtain on it facing my neighbor's house. I notice a bit of
light illuminating the curtain when I transmitted. Then it would go off a
bit later.
I got up and looked out the window and noticed it was my neighbors bedroom
light. After a while it stayed off and the noise problem went away.
My guess is that they had a touch lamp in the bedroom and they finally
assumed
that it was defective and unplugged it so they could sleep.
I never told my neighbor about it. Oddly enough, the husband later got his
ham ticket and was active for a few years.
73
Bill wa4lav
At 11:13 AM 7/6/2012 -0700, Jerry Kaidor wrote:
>Hello,
>
> Need a little advice here. TV reception has been marginal at this QTH
>since we moved in 8 months ago. Well, that's with an antenna made of
>300ohm
>twinlead thumbtacked to the wall. XYL has been bugging me for something
>better. BTW, there is no trace whatsoever of interference from the ham
>station, even when pushing out 900W. It probably helps that the actual
>antenna is 100 feet up the hill.
>
> So I bought one of these on Amazon:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JT0FWY/
>
> It has decent reviews, unlike many indoor antennas.
>
>....I figured I could make a pole mount for it on a stand and just set the
>stand on the floor.
>
> Now I am having second thoughts. The thing has an internal amplifier,
>and there's an RF remote for it. The station is about 10 feet away.
>If this antenna reacts badly to my HF leakage I will be screwed. If
>OTOH I use something passive, I can always stick an HPF in its coax.
>Maybe
>
> Last night I started a QSO with a 2, courtesy of the Alpha - and the
>XYL started yelling at me from downstairs. I tried to ignore her, she
>screamed louder and louder. Seems we recently bought a pair of
>bookcases. Each bookcase has a backlight and a touch control for the
>backlight. One of the backlights was turning on and off - actually
>cycling through its three brightnesses. I was able to fix the problem
>by just unplugging the offending bookcase. Wouldn't be able to do that
>with the TV :).
>
> - Jerry Kaidor, KF6VB ( jerry@tr2.com )
>
>
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