[AMPS] Re: Neighborhood RFI and Amps

[Rich Measures]

>Dealing with telephone RFI:
>
>>>Already have had to buy the lady next door a so called
>>>"Bullet Proof" phone;  she calls/receives calls all day,  it seems!
>>>But am not going to do that for the entire neighborhood,  well
>>>the other six or so homes around here.
>
>Unfortunately,  she is running a Bed and Breakfast business there,  and
>likes to wander about the premisis using a cordless phone.  I have
>gotten her to believe that there is really nothing I can do to fix the
>RFI when she is using her cordless.  I have put ferrites/K-Com filters on
>her
>lines to the base unit;  perhaps some help.  She also has a
>telephone answering machine;  and has had me over to listen
>to the sort of hash that she records when I am on the Hawaii
>Afternoon net on 40 meters.  She can record the hash until
>I cut my rig power to below about 75 watts,  then she is
>happy as nothing is heard from me on her answering
>machine.  I am not aware of a "Bullet Proof" answering
>machine,  is there one available?  I have put fettites and
>K-Com filters on the line to the answering machine;  also
>ferrites on the AC power cord for the machine.
>
>I also have put the K-Com in line RFI filters on her phone lines,
>and on two of the neighbors phones.  Have never heard from
>them since,  so guess they are happy.  I presumed I should
>use something that came in a nice plastic package and
>looked "store-bought"  so they would allow me to do the
>installation as a trail,  to see if that would solve the problem.
>
>Fortunatley,  my next door lady with the B&B  has said she
>understands that this is my hobby,  and everyone has to
>have a little fun,  so she is accepting of a bit if it happens
>to occur,  at least that is what she has told me so far;
>I have not heard from her about this matter in many
>months now.
>
>She shot herself in the foot once,  however.  I got a very irate
>call one morning from her brother who came for a visit from
>the mainland.  He was livid about constant TVI;  she had never
>mentioned such to me.  I was not operating,  but went over
>anyway.  Sure enough,  there was a persistant pulsing of the TV
>video picture.  That I was  there and not home operating made
>no matter to the brother;  it certainly was my fault.  I began to
>fiddle with the TV to see if the ferrite filter I had put on her
>AC line was still in place;  it was.  We are on cable TV here.
> Then I noticed a strange
>looking gizzmo on the floor,  in the room corner behind the TV.
>I asked what that was.  She said,  "Oh,  I bought that yesterday,
>it is my new electronic Cockroach eliminator;  it is supposed to
>drive them away!".  I asked if I might unplug it a moment.
>The TVI ceased the moment I pulled the plug on the unit.
>I suggested she put it somewhere else in the room,  away
>from the TV to see if the interferrance would cease.  She
>moved it to the opposite cornier,  wahla,  no more TVI.
>
>The guy still grumbled that he had heard me the afternoon before
>when he was trying to make a VIP call back to New York.  I asked
>which of the phones he was using:  the cordless,  of course,
>out doors by the pool!
>
>>By causing interference to your neighbors you discredit amateur radio,
>>Jim Reid.
>
>Well,  I have tried to be helpful as outlined above.  

My statement was based on your statement:  
"...experience has shown my neighbors have telephone RFI when I operate 
during early evening and some afternoon hours...."  
>.......
>>I wouldn't want to read something like this in the newspapers:  '''Ham
>>Operator on Kauai Causes Infant Death By Interfering with 911 Call'''.

>That would be frightening should it occur,  as well as awful!!
>
-  indeed, Jim.  This is why I phone my neighbors and transmit to see if 
they have a telephone RFI problem.  If they do, it only takes 5 minutes 
to make up a filtered cordset.   If that doesn't fix the rfi problem,one 
can try driving a wooden stake through the heart of the telephone.   


Rich. Measures.  Web site:  www.vcnet.com/measures


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