[CQ-Contest] Interference to or from a buried invisible dog fence?

Barry w2up at comcast.net
Sat Jul 29 10:00:29 EDT 2017


When I lived in PA, my neighbor had a dog fence, closest point probably 
about 300 ft from my tower.  No issues at all.

Barry W2UP

On 7/28/2017 21:53, Mike Ricketts wrote:
> I live on a corner lot and the neighbor behind me and to my one side both
> have them in the ground. My only antenna since last fall has been a
> vertical that is about 20-25 feet from each of their lot lines. It's noisy
> on the bands, but it is a vertical on a suburban lot, also about 30 feet
> from the utility boxes in the corner of the lot. How much of that noise is
> attributed to the fences, I don't know, but probably not as much as the
> other sources of noise picked up by the vertical. I can't hear everything I
> want to work, but I can still pick some weak ones out of the noise.
>
> I would worry too much about an invisible fence.
>
> 73,
> Mike ND9G
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Dennis McAlpine <dbmcalpine at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> We are expecting to add a puppy in about two months and are investigating
>> putting in an in-ground invisible dog fence around most of the house.  Has
>> anyone had any experience with these fences?  Did you receive any RFI from
>> them or, in turn, did the radio interfere with the fence?  Any brands/types
>> you would you recommend or avoid?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dennis, K2SX
>>
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