Were weather conditions different during the contest?
I had severe problems with RF from 160m knocking my DSL connection
off-line until I installed a filter. Now it is fine except when it
rains. The DSL signal margins and line attenuation are identical and
wet and dry weather, so I can only guess somehow more RF finds its
way to the system when things are wet. I realize your smoke detector
isn't exposed to the weather, but your antennas and, I presume, a
good deal of the "space" between them and the smoke detector is.
Just a thought.
73,
Paul N1BUG
On 11/06/2012 12:28 AM, Kelly Johnson wrote:
Nothing was different AFAIK. The only difference I can think of is
that I removed the battery (during the contest) and put it back in
today.
Oh well. It will probably come back at which point I can do more
investigation (if not in the middle of a contest). I'm just glad it
wasn't a neighbor knocking on my door to complain of TVI.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, qrv@kd4e.com <qrv@kd4e.com> wrote:
What else did you have hooked up uniquely for the
contest?
Something that was connected then, and not now, was
coupling the signal into the detector wiring.
Kelly Johnson wrote:
I tried multiple bands and multiple beam headings today, in addition
to trying 80m. I couldn't make the smoke detector "chirp" today. I
have no idea why. I assume it won't happen again until the next
contest :-)
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