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Re: [RFI] Spectrum Cable Boxes

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Subject: Re: [RFI] Spectrum Cable Boxes
From: Clay Autery <KY5G@montac.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:31:15 -0500
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I can GUARANTEE you that that box is using a switch mode power supply (SMPS).

IF it is external, it is ALMOST a trivial exercise to determine the proper voltage and amperage requirements and supply it with clean DC current....

It WILL be a lot quieter with the SMPS gone....  now, the ROUTER inside the unit will also be making a racket as well.... that requires some additional RFI "trickery" to defeat.... but it IS doable.

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Clay Autery, KY5G
(318) 518-1389

On 11-Oct-19 08:11, James Gordon Beattie Jr wrote:
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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