[RFI] Grow-light..

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

If the lights are on a timer it could be the timer, not the lights.  Are 
you convinced that the noise is in the home?

Without going back in the thread, since you probably don't need to worry 
about a grow operation, how about approaching them nicely and talking to 
them?  This noise could be causing other problems for them and they 
could be happy to have some help.

The noise could also be some problem with their electrical system which 
could be very dangerous?  Who knows.

Good luck!

Mike W0MU

On 3/28/2014 10:34 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2014 at 16:04, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> Since you can see the lights does the RFI stop when they are turned off?
>>
>> Mike N2MS
> No.
>
> Yesterday, I went up to the house, all the residents being at work, and
> walked up to within 5 feet of the lights. They are 4 regular 4' long flourescent
> tubes in a single fixture hanging over a long tray of various what look like
> tomato seedlings.
>
> I took along a portable communications receiver which I had tuned to the
> frequency in the 80 meter band where I find the peak of the noise. I listened
> with the BFO both on and off and in AM. As I approached the lights, the
> noise did not change nor become stronger nor weaker.
>
> Those lights are NOT the source of "my" noise.
>
> My next step is to drop back to less sophisticated equipment, one of Tom's
> unshielded loops and the FT-890, and to go on a more thorough, more time
> consuming hunt.
>
> So far, from the discussion on this forum, I am convinced that "my" noise is
> definitely "grow-light" related, and what ever it is, it is very strong, and most
> probably not immediately near by.
>
> I am getting both more frustrated, and even more ticked off by this
> garbage...which appears to be getting slowly worse as time goes by.
>
> Again, thank you all for the very good advice and suggestions.
>
> vy 73,
>
> Ken W7EKB
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