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Re: [RFI] Spectrum Cable Boxes

To: rfi@contesting.com, jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] Spectrum Cable Boxes
From: James Gordon Beattie Jr <w2ttt@att.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:11:43 +0000 (UTC)
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Jim,


Try running the cable box from a battery and isolated from the power grid.  
There may be a switched mode power supply on that device or another one on 
another customer that is creating and conducting the noise.  Also, do this with 
no other cables connected to the cable box and first add the hdmi, then the 
cable feed.


73,


Gordon Beattie, W2TTT 


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On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:36 PM -0400, "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> 
wrote:










On 10/10/2019 4:54 PM, Anthony (N2KI) wrote:
> So I am
> fairly confident this is an RF shielding/filtering issue with the boxes.
> In speaking with Spectrum, I could not reach anyone in a technical
> department that has RFI experience.

You're paying them, tell them to give you a box that works or cancel 
your subscription.

If you still want to do it yourself, follow the guidelines in the app 
notes about killing noise and the new HF choke cookbook. These chokes 
MUST be multiple turns on #31 toroids, or through #31 clamp-ons. They 
must go on every cable in and out of the box.

73, Jim K9YC
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