Topband: OT - LG Dryer RFI

Bill Cromwell wrcromwell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 14:45:01 EST 2020


Hi,

I operate the washer and dryer and yes I do remove the fuzz from the 
lint trap:)

I also do most of the other "house work". The XYL is sliding ever slowly 
deeper into Alzheimer's. I have her do as much as she can and when she 
can. Lots of good days left.

73,

Bill  KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 11/21/20 2:24 PM, Mark - N5OT wrote:
> Bill, you might check with your wife.  I bet she is cleaning the dryer's 
> filter every time she uses it which might explain why you can't find the 
> hash.
> 
> 73 - Mark N5OT
> 
> 
> On 11/21/2020 10:18 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Have you tried to do anything about the dryer? Filters? I was 
>> concerned my clothes dryer and washing machine might do that but they 
>> apparently don't. My poor dear wife cannot grasp operating the touch 
>> controls for the microcontrollers in those machines. They are not LG. 
>> They are Maytag. Maybe I am just looking  in the wrong places for the 
>> hash:) I mostly use 80, 40, and 30 meters with some 160 and 17 meters 
>> in the mix.
>>
>> I have had occasion to tame some switch mode power supplies in 
>> computers here. It can be done.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bill  KU8H
>>
>> bark less - wag more
>>
>> On 11/21/20 10:39 AM, Joe Galicic wrote:
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> I have a LG DLE-7300WE clothes dryer that makes RFI when it's 
>>> running. I have not checked on every band but I know it makes noise 
>>> on 40 meters.  My noise level rises an S unit or so with RF hash when 
>>> it's running.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>> N3HEE
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 11/20/2020 5:12 PM Steve Lawrence via Topband 
>>>> <topband at contesting.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Please excuse the OT. Anyone using an LG DLG7301 Clothes Dryer? 
>>>> Any RFI detected 160-6m?
>>>>
>>>> Please reply off list only.
>>>>
>>>> TU & 73 - Steve WB6RSE
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