[RFI] Neon Light Interference

[Stephanie WX3K]

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All,

I have had this neon light interference problem since I moved here 6 years
ago. A pizza place about 1/4 mile away has outside neon lighting on their
building. Unfortunately, The place has changed owners at least 4 times since
then. Every owner has been unwilling to cooperate. Actually, I think I
discouraged the last owner by complaining about it and shortly after that
the place changed hands again. 

In any event, The Langhorne office of the FCC did receive a formal complaint
about it from me, but has not resolved the issue. Since I have been active
again on the low bands, more so than past years, I want to pursue this issue
again but I want some advice about the following:

1) Recommendations from an experienced neon lighting installer who
understands why these two displays of neon (totaling about 50-75 feet of
lighted neon) oscillate so badly as to cause interference from 3.5 through
50 MHz !!!!!!!

2) Any volunteers that may want to offer services to resolve this problem
with the lighting. ?

I would like to have one additional person to approach this place with and
perhaps make one last attempt to ask the new owner to resolve it. I have
always been very diplomatic and cordial in the past but that does not go
very far when the owners are ignorant to begin with.

It really does not  make sense to force the FCC to resolve the issue when
there are no educated neon installer in the area to fix the problem. The
original installer created the problem and as I understand the problem from
other neon folks, the display is oscillating because the HV transformers are
not loaded properly with the right amount of lighting. (Transformers used
have too high a voltage for the amount of lighting used)

Please dont ask me how I know if this is the problem. I have done extensive
DF work and spent many hours searching for RFI around my house and this neon
display is one of the last significant sources of RFI I need to resolve. 

Stephanie R. Koles WX3K
wx3k@arrl.net
http://www.qsl.net/wx3k
 
Assistant Skywarn Coordinator Somerset County, NJ
Mt. Holly Skywarn Technical Committee Vice Chair


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