[RFI] Taming Bug Zapper RFI?

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri May 28 07:57:41 PDT 2010


On Thu, 27 May 2010 23:30:08 -0500, kd4e wrote:

>Is it rational to even imagine taming RFI from
>a bug zapper - or is turning them off the *only*
>way to quiet them down?

Consider the antenna(s) connected to it. If you can choke them, 
you can kill the part of the trash that the antennas radiate. 
That wont help with what is radiated directly by the wiring 
within the unit, but since the antenna is much shorter, it 
should be weaker. 

Study http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdfs

73,

Jim K9YC





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