[RFI] Tesla's Response to Solar Panel RFI

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

Ham's have to improvise; try portable operation.

I started out as a Ham at my parent's surburban lot and had room for HF antennas. I got a job in NY City, got married and eventually purchased a home on a city lot on a hill which was food for VHF/UHF but not for HF. My wife and I like to hike and go to the beach so I stated doing lots of portable operation.

We eventually moved to a house in the suburbs in 1998 with and acre lot. Even though i have room for HF antennas the noise level keeps on raising. We continue our outdoor activities and I have portable radio radio go packs to take along with us.

I am now retired. My wife notices Ham radio can provide mental stimulation but not physical because it is a sedentary hobby. Operating outdoors provides some exercise and makes to hobby more attractive to her which is an added benefit.

I don't operate backpack portable so the size or weight of the radio is not a major consideration. A good radio for portable operating is the ICOM IC-7300 in the Emergency mode which increases the range of the internal tuner. I use Bienno batteries.

Turning Lemon into Lemonade.

Mike N2MS


> On December 23, 2019 at 10:29 AM "EDWARDS, EDDIE J via RFI" <rfi at contesting.com> wrote:

> The result of this scenario is the licensed ham will have to either pay for the expensive field retrofit for all of his/her neighbors (possibly several or even dozens of neighbors), sell the newly purchased house and move to the countryside with fewer neighbors, or else give up on ham radio and get a new hobby that doesn't have these expensive never ending RFI problems. (RFI grow lights, RFI battery chargers, RFI wall warts, & many other RFI sources keeping noise floor at S7-8 so he/she still can't hear most HF stations who live in the countryside calling.)  
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> Our amateur radio "technical pool" will continue to shrink even further than it already has the last 30 years due to HOAs and covenants causing them to eventually lose interest in participating in amateur radio at all.  I've watched many hams leave the hobby for these reasons.  Most hams get into the hobby to operate their radios, not spend most of their time tracking down RFI sources or fighting HOAs.  Model railroading is beginning to look like a better retirement hobby more and more every day.  
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> 73, de ed -K0iL
> Ed Edwards
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: RFI <rfi-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Hare, Ed W1RFI
> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2019 4:35 PM
> 
> Actually, yes, they are changing their designs.  These field retrofits are expensive.  The Lab's W1VLF was on the list to get his own home system upgraded and they replaced the inverter, the optimizers, added ferrites and did twisted pairs  to the panels, not a big loop.
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