>Dealing with telephone RFI:
>
>>>Already have had to buy the lady next door a so called
>>>"Bullet Proof" phone; she calls/receives calls all day, it seems!
>>>But am not going to do that for the entire neighborhood, well
>>>the other six or so homes around here.
>
>Unfortunately, she is running a Bed and Breakfast business there, and
>likes to wander about the premisis using a cordless phone. I have
>gotten her to believe that there is really nothing I can do to fix the
>RFI when she is using her cordless. I have put ferrites/K-Com filters on
>her
>lines to the base unit; perhaps some help. She also has a
>telephone answering machine; and has had me over to listen
>to the sort of hash that she records when I am on the Hawaii
>Afternoon net on 40 meters. She can record the hash until
>I cut my rig power to below about 75 watts, then she is
>happy as nothing is heard from me on her answering
>machine. I am not aware of a "Bullet Proof" answering
>machine, is there one available? I have put fettites and
>K-Com filters on the line to the answering machine; also
>ferrites on the AC power cord for the machine.
>
>I also have put the K-Com in line RFI filters on her phone lines,
>and on two of the neighbors phones. Have never heard from
>them since, so guess they are happy. I presumed I should
>use something that came in a nice plastic package and
>looked "store-bought" so they would allow me to do the
>installation as a trail, to see if that would solve the problem.
>
>Fortunatley, my next door lady with the B&B has said she
>understands that this is my hobby, and everyone has to
>have a little fun, so she is accepting of a bit if it happens
>to occur, at least that is what she has told me so far;
>I have not heard from her about this matter in many
>months now.
>
>She shot herself in the foot once, however. I got a very irate
>call one morning from her brother who came for a visit from
>the mainland. He was livid about constant TVI; she had never
>mentioned such to me. I was not operating, but went over
>anyway. Sure enough, there was a persistant pulsing of the TV
>video picture. That I was there and not home operating made
>no matter to the brother; it certainly was my fault. I began to
>fiddle with the TV to see if the ferrite filter I had put on her
>AC line was still in place; it was. We are on cable TV here.
> Then I noticed a strange
>looking gizzmo on the floor, in the room corner behind the TV.
>I asked what that was. She said, "Oh, I bought that yesterday,
>it is my new electronic Cockroach eliminator; it is supposed to
>drive them away!". I asked if I might unplug it a moment.
>The TVI ceased the moment I pulled the plug on the unit.
>I suggested she put it somewhere else in the room, away
>from the TV to see if the interferrance would cease. She
>moved it to the opposite cornier, wahla, no more TVI.
>
>The guy still grumbled that he had heard me the afternoon before
>when he was trying to make a VIP call back to New York. I asked
>which of the phones he was using: the cordless, of course,
>out doors by the pool!
>
>>By causing interference to your neighbors you discredit amateur radio,
>>Jim Reid.
>
>Well, I have tried to be helpful as outlined above.
My statement was based on your statement:
"...experience has shown my neighbors have telephone RFI when I operate
during early evening and some afternoon hours...."
>.......
>>I wouldn't want to read something like this in the newspapers: '''Ham
>>Operator on Kauai Causes Infant Death By Interfering with 911 Call'''.
>That would be frightening should it occur, as well as awful!!
>
- indeed, Jim. This is why I phone my neighbors and transmit to see if
they have a telephone RFI problem. If they do, it only takes 5 minutes
to make up a filtered cordset. If that doesn't fix the rfi problem,one
can try driving a wooden stake through the heart of the telephone.
Rich. Measures. Web site: www.vcnet.com/measures
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