[TenTec] is this an rf leakage problem??

[c-hawley@uiuc.edu]

I've had this happen when too much sunlight falls on the TV 
ir window. I figured the ir in the sunlight overloaded the 
input sensor.
Chuck, KE9UW

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:02:46 -0800
>From: kz2g at optonline.net  
>Subject: [TenTec] is this an rf leakage problem??  
>To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>
>Here's one for you guys.  Yesterday the remotes on my Sanyo 
32" TV and my Mintek DVD player stopped working.  Well, they 
didn't stop but rather only worked from a foot away from the 
remote sensors.  At first I only noticed the TV's remote 
didn't work.  So I put new batteries in it then cleaned the 
remote sensor.  Still wouldn't work.  Finally, I tried my 
DVD player to finish watching a DVD.  I then discovered it 
was doing exactly the same thing as my TV remote, working 
from just a foot away.  I checked the batteries and they 
were fine.  Then I tried my vcr's remote.  It worked fine.  
Then I tried my TV and DVD remotes.  Suddenly they were 
working again from across the room.  What they heck was 
going on?  The only thing I could think of was that RF from 
my Ten-Tec Omni 6 Plus was getting into the TV and the DVD's 
remote sensoning circuitry.  The Sanyo TV was bought in 
October 2001.  The Mintek DVD player was bought in July 
2003.  The VCR is about from 1998.  Also this has happ
>ened b4.  My tv remote stops working then after several 
hours mysteriously starts working again.  I was not using 
the DVD player at those time, so I don't know if that was 
screwing up too.  But do you think it could be RF from my 
100-watt rig getting into the remote sensoning circuitry and 
screwing it up for a few hours??
>
>Bob Mauro, KZ2G Via Web Mail