[RFI] Swimming Pool Pump RFI

Jim McCook w6ya at cox.net
Thu Jun 25 20:18:16 EDT 2020


A new noise just appeared from next door neighbor's brand new swimming 
pool pump about 100 ft. from my tower.  It's designed to run from dawn 
to dusk, 24/7.  RFI appears only on 12, 10 and 6m.  Most likely it's 
also on lower frequencies outside the HF bands.  The noise is a broad 
hump about 25 KHz wide and drifts downward all day long.  Made by Jandy 
Co.  No doubt it's a DC motor with a crummy Chinese switching power 
supply. Installer said he will contact the Jandy people for advice.  Has 
anyone had to deal with this?  Jim W6YA


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