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Re: Topband: Nasty QRM From ??

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Subject: Re: Topband: Nasty QRM From ??
From: Stephen Hawkins <ng0g@wccta.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:31:36 -0600
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Jim,

Toggling a switch rather then disassembling two under warranty garage door openers and splicing in a non switching supply is a much easier solution for me.

Steve

On 1/24/20 2:15 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 1/24/2020 9:39 AM, Stephen Hawkins wrote:
I have two new Chamberlain Garage Door openers that have cheap Chinese switching supplies in them that use the wires to the switch at the people door and the wires to the sensors at the bottom of the roll up doors as antenna. Despite toroids and bypass caps they wipe out 160m.   When I know we are in for the evening I power them off at the circuit breaker panel.

The better solution is to simply replace those nasty power supplies with old-fashioned LINEAR power supplies, cutting the cable for both the new and old power supplies and splicing the Linear supply to the cable going to the garage door openers. Details on my website, in the app note about building contest scores by killing receive noise.

73, Jim K9YC
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