[TowerTalk] Weekend from hell

[K9MA]

Yes, please give us more information, including your call.

It does, however, sound like its just RF overload, which would not be 
your fault. It can usually be fixed with ferrite cores on the long 
wires, like speaker leads. I've had to do this in my own house, as well 
as those of some of the neighbors. It's no big deal, unless the neighbor 
is hostile. Try to avoid that.

An example: A few years ago a neighbor had one of those digital to 
analog TV converter boxes, hooked to rabbit ears. He was right between 
Europe and my antenna, and I could wipe it out with 10 W. Ferrite cores 
on all the cables coming into that box completely solved the problem up 
to 1500 W, and the neighbor was completely satisfied. He even gave me my 
cores back when he got rid of that box.

Please collect some more information, and get back to us.

73,
Scott K9MA


On 11/18/2019 16:20, john nistico wrote:
> Not sure what either device is just that it has speakers and both neighbors said they could hear my voice. Neither is in direct line of the inverted v and running 150 watts and the apex at 85ft not sure what the issue could possibly be.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 4:57 PM, K9MA <k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:
>>
>> Wait! Unless I missed something, we don't even know whether this is a matter of RF susceptibility at the neighbor's end, or something spurious from the transmitter. Is the interference to a device which is not supposed to receive radio signals at all, like an audio system? Is the device receiving the interference one that the neighbor just got? There's just no point going any further until that's sorted out.
>>
>> 73,
>> Scott K9MA
>>
>>
>>> On 11/18/2019 13:41, john nistico wrote:
>>> Only running 150 watts
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) <wesattaway at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>> My previous suggestions accidently went only to John and did not go to the list.  Here is what I sent a few minutes ago:  This is a repeat with one additional idea tacked on at the end.
>>>>
>>>> Check your connectors and grounds that are inside the shack.
>>>>
>>>> Make sure you didn't accidently over-drive the amp.
>>>>
>>>> Check your main ground connection to earth.
>>>>
>>>> If nothing bad is found then start looking at the feedline and outside connectors on your 80M antenna.  Depending on where the antenna is located, make sure it hasn't somehow started bouncing up against a metal object like a gutter.
>>>>
>>>> Others on the list will probably come up with additional ideas.
>>>>
>>>> One other idea I have is to bypass your amp and see what happens with lower power.  Alternatively, you could leave the amp in line and reduce the amp's power output to see if the interference stops at some lower power level.
>>>>
>>>>    -------------------
>>>> Wes Attaway (N5WA)
>>>> (318) 393-3289 - Shreveport, LA
>>>> Computer/Cellphone Forensics
>>>> AttawayForensics.com
>>>>    -------------------
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: john nistico [mailto:electric911inc at hotmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:33 PM
>>>> To: Wes Attaway (N5WA)
>>>> Cc: jimlux; towertalk at contesting.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Weekend from hell
>>>>
>>>> Two different neighbors
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 1:10 PM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) <wesattaway at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was going on the language he used re "the neighborhood", which to me
>>>>> implied more than one neighbor complained.  However, maybe it was just one
>>>>> neighbor, as others have apparently assumed.  We will have to get more info.
>>>>>
>>>>>   -------------------
>>>>> Wes Attaway (N5WA)
>>>>> (318) 393-3289 - Shreveport, LA
>>>>> Computer/Cellphone Forensics
>>>>> AttawayForensics.com
>>>>>   -------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>>>>> jimlux
>>>>> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 7:35 AM
>>>>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Weekend from hell
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/18/19 5:27 AM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) wrote:
>>>>>> What was the nature of the complaints?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you haven't changed anything inside the shack then maybe something is
>>>>>> loose or corroded outside.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>>>>> john
>>>>>> nistico
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 7:21 AM
>>>>>> To: towertalk
>>>>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Weekend from hell
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing in my shack has changed the last 3 years but this weekend the
>>>>>> neighborhood complained about 80 meters. Any suggestions what to look for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>

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Scott  K9MA

k9ma at sdellington.us