No point in sticking your foot in your mouth by accusing the wrong thing.
I'd be careful about "jumping" on the dog fence as you walk in the door
(even though you are "sure" it is the dog fence).
As a new neighbor, you want to approach this carefully. You will want to
try a few things with him to isolate the problem until you prove to him (and
yourself) with an AM radio or something what is happening and what causes
the problem to go away. Faulty unit, safety/fire hazard is can be a
successful approach. If the unit is new and it is not a broken or
deteriorated loop, he may be able to replace the unit under warranty.
73, Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: <Gary@doctorgary.net>; <Rfi@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI from a neighbor
> I think I'd tell them that their electronic dog fence is obviously
> defective, and could be a fire hazard. These things are normally as quiet
> as church-mice. Could be they have a break in their loop (underground) or
> a fault in the driver - they are fairly prone to lightning damage. Take a
> portable radio with you.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
> At 10:12 PM 2/7/2008, Gary Smith wrote:
> >Huge thanks to Tony K2MO who sent me the following link
> >http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/rfi-noise/
> >
> >I found the culprit at the bottom of the Miscellaneous Equipment
> >page: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/rfi-noise/misc.html It's an
> >electric Dog Fence! The noise sample of it provided there shows just
> >how strong it is.
> >
> >Now how to tell someone I don't know that their way overpriced Dog
> >Fence is tearing up the airwaves...
> >
> >Gary
> >KA1J
> >
> > > There's a neighbor that has something active which generates RFI in
> > > the car radio whenever I drive past their house. It's enough to be
> > > louder than 880 AM out of New York City which is a really strong
> > > station at the end of Long Island Sound. On my car radio it ranges 100
> > > feet either side of their house (Not sure which house it is as there
> > > are several on both sides of the street that it could be).
> > >
> > > I've noticed the exact same sound when driving by a particular house
> > > in a heavily wooded area so it would only be coming from that house.
> > >
> > > This sound is pulsed about 4 times a second & digital in character.
> > >
> > > My complaint is it's easily heard at the low end of 160 meters and
> > > bothers my reception from 500-600 feet away.
> > >
> > > Is there a series of RFI sounds on a web page that I seem to recall
> > > being made available so as to ID common sources of rfi? I don't know
> > > any of the people in the houses this RFI is coming from but if it's
> > > something I can pinpoint I at least have a place to start.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Gary
> > > KA1J
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