[TenTec] RFI update

[Bill Fuqua]

A number of these computer components are not traceable back to their 
source. Just to the outfit that sold the stuff to consumer.

73
Bill wa4lav


At 11:15 AM 6/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Howdy - I have some experience obtaining FCC approval of products and some
>experience in China. The computer obviously does not meet the FCC Class B
>(home environment) requirement for sale in the USA. You can contact the FCC
>and/or the seller and tell them of the violation and demand an approved
>replacement or a fix to this one. You have a strong case. The folks in China
>and Taiwan were caught using phony FCC approval numbers so even if it has a
>number the number should be checked with the FCC.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>73,Tom, W7QF
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:52 AM
>To: tentec at contesting.com
>Subject: [TenTec] RFI update
>
>
>
>Greetings all,
>
>About a month ago I posted a message about an intermittent RFI problem on
>the AM BC band and 160M (which shows up spaced at approximately 138 KHz
>intervals). I had continued to try to track it down as time/WX permitted and
>had narrowed it down to my house and the neighbor behind me. Yesterday the
>neighbor's jr. op was out mowing the lawn so I went over and talked to him
>after he finished. It turns out that he came home from college about the
>time the RFI started. He brought his clone computer home that they had
>bought for him last fall when he went off to school and started using it
>here. I have checked from their QTH and the RFI seems to disappear
>completely with unplugging it -- now I need to get on the landline with him
>and check from my QTH. I had him unplug it as a secondary test because when
>it was on it _completely_ wiped out the AM radio in the hall outside his
>room with broadband noise! (BTW the computer is an "Alaska" brand: PS says
>"Made in China" as to be expecte!
>  d.)
>
>Does this sound like it could be the culprit, and if so, what's the best way
>to get it resolved? (The family is very cooperative and the system is less
>than 1 yr. old, so the question would seem to come down to whether the
>dealer or the manufacturer is responsible if I can prove that this system is
>the source of the RFI.)
>
>TNX/73, Al
>
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