On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:14 -0800, Jim WA9YSD wrote:
> At work in one of the office of the carpenter shop we had rebuilt a 4 foot
> florescent fixture with T8 tubes and a new style electronic ballast. The
> radio which was tuned to an FM station, had a lot of white noise and could
> not hear the station very well. I turned off the lights and the noise
> disappeared. So be aware of this situation. So much for meeting FCC
> emission specifications.
>
> Keep The Faith, Jim K9TF/WA9YSD
>
You might have to add a computer power supply line noise filter and a
coarse grounded screen (like 1/2" hardware cloth) over the fixture to
quiet it. Or an outside yagi for the radio with double shielded coax to
the radio.
73, Jerry, K0CQ
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