"You folks are throwing away your MW because of this thread I think is silly." I toss mine when electronics tens of feet away shut down and the uW leakage detector pegs at several feet. Kurt ________
That's fine until half a lentil bean gets caught somewhere around the door... How many people polish the seals and check for leaks in their lifetime? Kurt ___________________________________________
"I might worry about the biohazard effects of microwave radiation if I were standing right in front of a parabolic dish, but not signals at that level, any more than I am concerned about the dangers
"Have you considered sensitivity training for the PTSD you and everyone in your trailer park suffered after the encounter with the homeless guy? Tasteless post. And may your Airstream fall off its ci
"I would worry more about the long cat5 cable, both for rfi and susceptibility to your rf getting into it." Anyone running CAT5 through EMT? Looking at the possibility of a 30-40' run under the house
Makes sense. I could also use metal flexible conduit from one end to the other and have a continuous piece of metal for the conduit, some even have a separate bonding wire within them. Planned to mo
Anyone using SDR to monitor RFI across a wide bandwith AND into higher frequencies, such as UHF? Results? I regularly hear arcing poles to ~500 MHz, wondering how it would look at a bandwidth of, for
Anyone using these "DC-Daylight", well, maybe a GHz or two, SDRs that should be plug and play? Kurt _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.c
I'm wondering where he lives that the power infrastructure uses 49.5 KHz and not 50 or 60 Hz. Kurt _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.co
"find a place to operate, just not within 100 feet of the bulbs. Is that harmful interference, or not? So far, I'd have a hard time imagining convincing the FCC that it is." What about emergency serv
"Let's hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears in our Federal Government like so many other things." They already worked an easy out into it: "identification of the most urgent enforcement cases" Kurt __
Due to the noises produced by cars, their radios are probably the most heavily suppressed in the world. Rule #1. NEVER use a car radio to try to hear or find noise. Kurt ____________________________
"Their bones will never be found. Just kidding." Try a 3# hammer. I bet you find at least one in their head. Kurt _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com h
Ask your neighbor to come over and hear the noise on your radio. Have a friend of HIS, wife, son, whatever, go back to his place with a walkie-talkie, then radio back that they are turning off the fe
"why is this so hard? special radios, special antennas, ultrasonics, etc, etc, etc... if we needed all that stuff before hunting for something we would never get it done. I have 2 radios I have used
Since power companies usually use the Radar Engineers equipment, which tunes about 310-330 MHz AM (don't know for sure, I'd have to look again), who is playing with the 315 MHz AM receivers than can
What about one of those cheapo $30 Chinese HTs with a store-bought or homebrew LPDA? Can't get much cheaper or easier than that. I think it helps, no matter how little help that may turn out to be,
According to AMSAT and the Nval Academy about a week ago: "What you may hear will be 2 one-second packets per minute, one at 1200 baud and one at 9600 baud, trying to "call home"." Doesn't seem so ba
"Texas, installations done by licensed installers require that the smoke detectors be powered by only by the panel, e.g., battery powered detectors are not allowed." What happens when you lose power
Speaking of funky bulbs... About 25 years ago I read an article about light tubes used in a museum somewhere. They were RF in nature, operating frequency was 27.12 MHz if I recall correctly. As I rec