[RFI] Recent RFI status - Direct TV and Dish?

Anthony (N2KI) n2ki.ham at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 15:05:15 EDT 2013


I just reinstalled Direct TV from TWC. No rfi issues with either ( yet).

Anthony (N2KI)
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On Aug 26, 2013 3:00 PM, "Dave Harmon" <k6xyz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have DISH HD and there has been only one problem.
> DISH required a telephone line to the unit when I first had it installed.
> This might have been eliminated by now....not sure.
> But....the unit DID cause an emission on the 40mtr band through the phone
> line that I totally eliminated by adding a K-COM filter on the phone line
> at
> the rear of the unit.
> Otherwise.....I have not had any interference to or from the DISH unit
> whatsoever when using high power on SSB and AM.
>
> Dave Harmon
> K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
> Sperry, Ok.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tim Duffy
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 1:33 PM
> To: rfi at contesting.com
> Subject: [RFI] Recent RFI status - Direct TV and Dish?
>
> I am curious to know of any RFI emissions trouble from Dish or Direct TV
> installations that would affect the 1.8 to 50 MHz spectrum. Have you made
> receiving measurements to see if anything is being "emitted" by your (or
> your neighbors) home satellite RX system? For example, if your low band RX
> array was close to a Dish or Direct TV antenna - is there RFI noise that
> you
> can here - caused by Dish or Direct TV?
>
>
>
> Also, how about RFI problems associated with nearby transmitting antennas
> that might cause RFI overload problems to the Dish or Direct TV systems -
> as
> in TVI?
>
>
>
> Is one service better than the other has far as receiving or transmitting
> RFI, or are they RFI quiet and can take nearby HF transmitters?
>
>
>
> 73,
>
> Tim K3LR
>
>
>
>
>
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