[RFI] LED recessed lighting

[Charles Plunk]

Jim this description is spot on. If you live in a neighborhood, take a 
good portable battery operated receiver (FT817, KX2, etc) with a wire 
hung in your backyard. Take readings of noise floor, birdies, etc of all 
your bands you use. Then go to a forest and do the same. It will blow 
you away at the difference. Done it many times. First time I did that 
years ago with an FT817, thought surely something must be wrong with the 
rig. Rig was fine.

Chuck
W4NBO

On 6/18/22 21:27, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 6/18/2022 5:25 PM, David Hale wrote:
>> oh of course! Why didn't I think of that?
>> Another fellow also responded privately with a model from Home Depot 
>> that
>> he uses with success, Commercial Electric model CER6730MWH27
>
> Most hams are bathed in RF noise from all the stuff in their homes, 
> and the homes of their neighbors generating trash that we don't 
> realize how noisy any individual product is. For that reason, I NEVER 
> trust observations that a device is quiet unless I know that the ham 
> has carefully probed it with a battery operated radio held very close 
> to it, and to all wires connected to it. These links talk about how to 
> do that.
>
> http://k9yc.com/KillingReceiveNoise.pdf
> http://k9yc.com/KillingRXNoiseVisalia.pdf
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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