MY NEIGHBOR..
had multiple lamps (touch controlled ) in a canopy on their bed !!!!
IT DID NOT LIKE 20
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At 02:27 PM 7/6/2012, Bill Fuqua wrote:
> 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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