- 1. [RFI] Filing Comments to FCC (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Thu Aug 7 08:15:33 2003
- The current filing period is for "reply comments" only. You can probably couch your comments as such and get them in -- just be sure to reference one of the power company comments that say "Interfere
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00019.html (7,851 bytes)
- 2. [RFI] Broadband over Power Line Video Conferance (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Thu Aug 7 13:07:28 2003
- I dunno --this looks more like advocacy than any sort of a done deal. As someone commented, how can NTIA insist on not giving amateurs a real band at 5 MHz because of homeland security needs, then tu
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00024.html (8,216 bytes)
- 3. [RFI] Video (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Aug 9 10:13:14 2003
- Count me as one of the beneficiaries of Tom's fight (probably). We share the same power company (Allegheny Power), and their local engineering staff has been quite helpful in resolving power-line noi
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00043.html (9,160 bytes)
- 4. No More Nice Guy? (was RE: [RFI] BPL video FAQs) (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Aug 9 14:50:38 2003
- With the limited extent of BPL tests in this country, the probability that an HF or low-VHF op would a) recognize the weird interference as BPL and b) complain officially about it makes it very unlik
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00051.html (8,867 bytes)
- 5. [RFI] RE: Concerning BPL video (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Aug 9 14:50:53 2003
- I disagree strongly with Mike on this, but I think your aspersions on his motives are unfair. He has done a tremendous amount of good for hams in his company's area by identifying and fixing more pro
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00052.html (9,234 bytes)
- 6. [RFI] BPL alternatives (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Aug 15 15:39:47 2003
- I just don't see an economic argument for BPL -- the same people who now can't get DSL, or cable internet, and who don't chose to go satellite, make up the hardest-to-serve, most-scattered constituen
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00113.html (8,934 bytes)
- 7. [RFI] Re: Topband: BPL (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Aug 16 15:44:58 2003
- They do indeed, and the results of the extensive modeling and measurement effort they describe are obviously of critical interest to ARRL. It would be very interesting to know the extent of the coope
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-08/msg00129.html (7,536 bytes)
- 8. [RFI] Fwd: [TowerTalk] Potentially interesting FCC ruling today (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Mon Jul 7 21:05:41 2003
- FYI To: <rfi@contesting.com> 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 17 June 03. Are you current? www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-07/msg00010.html (8,061 bytes)
- 9. [RFI] Low Voltage light RFI (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Jul 11 16:12:44 2003
- Funny, I have three sets made by GE - 8 lamps total - that use some sort of switching black lump, and they are totally RF quiet. The only problem is that something -- probably their overtemp sensing
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-07/msg00019.html (7,492 bytes)
- 10. [RFI] re: BPL (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Jun 6 07:50:09 2003
- Hopefully, the same NTIA that has forced the ridiculous 60-meter band restrictions for amateurs, because it wants to protect government HF frequencies, and which is not supporting 40-meter band revis
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-06/msg00017.html (7,796 bytes)
- 11. [RFI] Disconnecting from Internet? (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Tue Apr 29 15:03:38 2003
- In my limited experience with RFI in the shack computer (I used to crash RecAll Pro on 15 meters routinely) good low resistance common grounding between the transmitter, the PC case and the shack bul
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-04/msg00006.html (7,446 bytes)
- 12. [RFI] Speedstream Modem (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Mon Mar 10 15:52:31 2003
- I think I'd also be principally suspicious of my house wiring, assuming your Ethernet cables are CAT 5. You might try temporarily powering the modem from batteries, or putting an AC line filter betwe
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-03/msg00003.html (7,643 bytes)
- 13. [RFI] toroid core color coding (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Mon Mar 10 16:04:59 2003
- I just pulled 4 toroid cores out of a defunct surplus computer power supply (110v in, 5 and 12 volts out). The cores are 1" to 1.375" OD, and a little under .5 inches high. One is solid yellow, two a
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-03/msg00004.html (7,134 bytes)
- 14. [RFI] TiVO, ReplayTV and RFI (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Mar 21 08:59:59 2003
- Has anyone had any experience with using one of these units in a ham environment? I found one review on Circuit City's site that reported interference to the built-in modem (which downloads program s
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-03/msg00009.html (6,845 bytes)
- 15. [RFI] Switch mode lamp noise (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Feb 7 10:24:23 2003
- This may not be relevant, but the 12V halogens in my kitchen are from GE, probably use the samne type of voltage conversion, and they are dead quiet. This suggests to me that routine RFI treatment ma
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-02/msg00017.html (7,742 bytes)
- 16. [RFI] LCD FLAT MONITOR (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sun Jan 26 12:24:50 2003
- First of all, consider whether you really need a 17". I bought a 15" and was pleased to discover that the viewable area is almost the same as a 17" CRT. I was able to switch from large fonts to small
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-01/msg00061.html (7,763 bytes)
- 17. [RFI] LCD FLAT MONITOR (score: 127)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Mon Jan 27 14:31:03 2003
- Sounds like you have the big brother of mine, which runs 1024x768 quite nicely, though I never use it. 800 x 600 is plenty for these old eyes. My point was that you shouldn't assume that since you us
- /archives//html/RFI/2003-01/msg00073.html (7,935 bytes)
- 18. Re: [RFI] Can you identify this noise? (score: 9)
- Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:10:52 -0500
- At 12:12 PM 1/11/04 -0600, K4RO wrote: I have a new noise in the neighborhood which appeared about a month ago. It caused a real problem during the recent ARRL Ten Meter Contest. The noise is present
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-01/msg00035.html (7,661 bytes)
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