I am planning on moving to a new QTH, and the ham shack will be located in a finished room built behind the garage of this house. This room already has several overhead flourescent light fixtures, an
Hi Herb, Properly working flourescents shouldn't give you any RFI problem. Behind me here in the shack are six flourescent fixtures with four tubes each. The transceivers can't hear the difference if
I have a couple of these fixtures in my basement, in the office next to my shack. I also have a three free-hanging flourescent fixtures above clear tiles in my shack. None of them is an RFI source. B
When purchasing new fluorescent lights look in the specification for reduced RFI/EMI The cheaper the lamp and fixture the noisier it probably will be.... Consider task lighting with incandescent or h
One more suggestion that no one yet has mentioned - Check the origin of manufacture and stay away from any that are made outside of the U.S. Imports are allowed that do not meet the "Spectrum Polluti
Author: harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Charles H. Harpole)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 13:54:40 -0400 (EDT)
I have had lots of noise from flourescent in my home and some noise from halogen wall fixtures and a free-standing torch style lamp (a cheapie, but what the h...). DE K4VUD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.