Hi Chuck, Great article that I can share with some homeowners that dont fully appreciate some of the problems RFI can cause that might unknowingly impact their own equipment/toys. Just last night I t
Hi Dan, I track down RFI for myself as well as some other hams in the Indy area. I live in a subdivision of 205 homes and normally the RFI from a homeowner that interferes with my own station origina
Hi Gary, Yep, one example W9RE and I use is a guy near him that had the wrong Wall Wart plugged into a device and he said it was very hot. The homeowner was very happy that we found this problem for
Hi Ed, Yep, for Duke Energy in my area it is indeed their "power quality" department (but that has even changed over the years), but for IPL (Indianapolis Power and Light now part of AES) it is their
Hi Dave, Even though they are exempt from the equipment authorization procedure, as far as I can tell they are not exempt from the rules regarding harmful interference covered in Part 15, sub part A
Thought I would share a lucky moment I just had with everyone in the RFI world. I recently tracked down a home 0.20 miles from my house that I'm 99 percent certain is causing interference on 160 mete
I Should also mention he is an engineer in the TV broadcast industry. _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/
A few weeks ago I posted that I had tracked down RFI on 160 meters repeating every 16 KHz to a home that belonged to a non active ham located 0.20 miles from my QTH. The homeowner thought the RFI was
Numerous cases like this. Another case was light-control panel used by a DJ was the source of the interference that rendered key fobs useless, and this was in New York. Don (wd8dsb) _________________
Hi Scott, The Moxon sounds interesting and I will have to build one for my tool box of DF antennas, nevertheless let me share my experience with my 136 MHz 4 element portable Yagi that has very deep
As a follow up to the Moxon antenna suggestion a week or so ago, I built a couple of Moxon antennas this week (one for 146 MHz and one for 136 MHz) but ran into some problems with some online design
While out doing some RFI direction finding today I stopped by a power pole I previously identified as generating RFI which the utility company confirmed has a bad lightning arrestor which is now sche
Hi Joe, I revisited the AM radio with internal bar antenna today on a known faulty power pole (bad lightning arrestor which is scheduled for replacement). I used two different AM radios (one was an E
Just thought I should share something that was a first for me when tracking down power line RFI and man it was frustrating, and I have tracked down a lot of powerline RFI. I noticed some weak RFI at
Hi Scott, Great point and I normally try and match up fluctuations when possible but I cant be certain on this one as it did not fluctuate (it was on constant versus the easy find I had 2 days earlie
Hi Eddie, Thanks for sharing your very similar story, and very interesting based on the configuration of lines I was dealing with. As a matter of fact I was using Google Earth this morning to look at
Hi Scott and gang, Thought I would provide a status report on this case, and also provide a warning to others regarding something I did which I certainly don't condone (I'm certainly not proud of wha
Hi Eddie, Google earth showed these guy wires were wrapped around the pole dating back to at least 2019. I was in direct communications with a high level manager at AES and told him details about the
Hi Gary, I never like to guess what the source of the RFI might be, but here are some comments and suggestions. Do you have a 2 meter beam and a 2 meter radio with AM mode capability? If so you might
Hi Kim, You and I are thinking along the same line. I've been discussing this same issue with Gary off line as I told him I thought it was odd that he was not hearing such a strong signal on his port