To keep the discussion relevant to this list, it sounds like it is
related to the field strength, so you obviously need a taller tower to
put her house further away from the beam (and further down the slope of
the main lobe). :^)
This may or may not help, but I had some trouble with a subwoofer of
the type where it gets its signal by feeding the front speaker leads
through the subwoofer. Putting some Radio Shack chokes on the lines
helped a bit, but after changing to a new receiver which had a coax
port to drive the subwoofer all the interference went away.
Bob, N7XY
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:51:11PM -0700, David Cook wrote:
> Thanks Roger, that's seems like very good advice to me. My neighbor doesn't
> care to have me in her house "inspecting" her home, and I don't particularly
> want to see it either. Who knows, maybe Norman Bates lives in her attic.
>
> So who might these "professionals" be? It would be nice to have someone do
> the work while I'm here at the shack to key the mic for tests.
>
> Another thing, for the group, as far as I've determined so far this is a
> problem with only this one piece of gear - her sub-woofer. I haven't done
> anthing to any of the neighbors' equipment, so I don't think it's stray RF
> on my end. In fact, it only happens when I point the beam directly at my
> neighbor's house. I can run a full kilowatt with the beam pointed in any
> other direction and she doesn't hear a peep out of her sub-woofer. Just
> wanted to make that clear to some who suggested stray RF.
>
> Thanks for all the great responses on this somewhat off-topic question.
> Thanks for the suggestions to keep a log, I've started one now. And if I
> don't make some headway soon, I'll send a formal letter to her, for the
> record, about the situation. Should I cc: the FCC?
>
> 73, Dave, WAOTTN
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> > [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Roger D Johnson
> > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:04 AM
> > To: TowerTalk
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RFI resolution
> >
> >
> > In my opinion you are putting yourself in a very precarious position
> > whenever you go into someone's house and attempt to "fix" their RFI
> > problem. It leaves you open to all manner of charges that you damaged
> > something or somehow mucked it up. This is especially true if the
> > neighbor is not kindly disposed to you from the beginning. My advice
> > is to leave it to the professionals. By that I mean a third party who
> > works for an insured business and has no personal interest in
> > the outcome.
> >
> > 73, Roger
> >
> >
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