- 1. [RFI] More cowbell? (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Laws" <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:32:53 -0600
- Or ferrite, as the case may be ... Background: I have a Spi-Ro D-56 80-10 trap dipole at about 26'. There is a Spi-Ro D-314 (30-12) at about 34' some 30' away. D-56 is fed with about 63' of 9913. Not
- /archives//html/RFI/2008-12/msg00136.html (11,104 bytes)
- 2. Re: [RFI] More cowbell? (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Laws" <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:01:15 -0600
- Sold with/for Yaesu VHF/UHF gear to allow programming from a PC. It's just a level converter and works just ducky to control the Icom ... well, ducky minus RFI. Mine was from my FT50RD HT. It's not a
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00003.html (11,970 bytes)
- 3. Re: [RFI] CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:22:36 -0600
- Y'all are not having fun with CFLs. I converted everything at N5UWY/9 (save for stuff like the fridge and under the microwave/range hood) about 8 years ago, when CFLs were *really* expensive. Overall
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00055.html (9,146 bytes)
- 4. Re: [RFI] CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:42:58 -0600
- Yeah, they're all about the same price. =:-0 At least my heat pump saves me cash each month even if I don't work much DX with it. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! No Trillio
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00058.html (7,958 bytes)
- 5. Re: [RFI] CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:30:12 -0600
- I'm shocked at that. I mark mine, too. Some globe-type bulbs in the kitchen table fixture have started to go (2 of 5 so far) and I was extremely disappointed to see that they'd only been in service f
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00123.html (9,771 bytes)
- 6. Re: [RFI] CFL Life Tests (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:48:11 -0600
- Yeah, 1996 data. From reading it, the Euros appear to have been ahead of the curve in the CFL market given that the cheap no-name stuff didn't show up here until the last 3-4 years. One of their main
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00140.html (7,759 bytes)
- 7. [RFI] CFL+surge? (Re: RFI Digest, Vol 73, Issue 22 (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:21:54 -0600
- Not being a fan of The Surge -- which took out my DSL modem, one of the Ethernet switches, the mobo of one of the PCs and the on-board NIC of the other and, worst of all, the CI-V circuit of my Icom
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00144.html (7,585 bytes)
- 8. Re: [RFI] RFI Susceptibility of DTV? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:33:14 -0600
- Form a non-engineer point of view, that's what I'd expect. The interference would raise the bit error rate but you wouldn't notice at all until you get to the point where it can't decode, then it's g
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00159.html (7,657 bytes)
- 9. Re: [RFI] RFI Susceptibility of DTV? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:23:09 -0600
- A friend that lives in Chicagoland bought a big Sony plasma TeeVee really early on. Paid about 1.6 Icom 7800s for it. The Chicago CBS affiliate transmits NTSC on channel 2 but their ATSC feed is on .
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00163.html (8,005 bytes)
- 10. Re: [RFI] RFI Susceptibility of DTV? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:55:03 -0600
- Some are, though: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/01/20/funny-pictures-have-thxbi/ -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! No Trillion-dollar blank check for crooks! ___________
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00197.html (9,171 bytes)
- 11. Re: [RFI] RIDDEX rip-off and possible RFI generator? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:49:34 -0600
- I believe these are audio, not radio. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! No Trillion-dollar blank check for crooks! _______________________________________________ RFI mailing
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00199.html (7,062 bytes)
- 12. Re: [RFI] More cowbell? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:40:28 -0600
- I never really finished my story. I ended up borrowing an honest-to-goodness Icom CT-17 level converter and made nearly 400 QSOs during RTTY Roundup. The CT-17 evidently has enough Ls, Cs, etc, to ke
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-01/msg00202.html (8,557 bytes)
- 13. Re: [RFI] VLF interference Re: CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:48:33 -0600
- I've not installed a 19th century bulb in the 21st century, save for ones in the car and, I think, maybe one in the 'fridge or oven. That's 9 years in two houses in two states (i.e. entirely differen
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00040.html (9,836 bytes)
- 14. Re: [RFI] VLF interference Re: CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:34:31 -0600
- kWh or cash money? My kWh went down when I started using CFLs and, at the time in Illinois, the state regulated electricity prices, so the cash money went down too. It's a problem, no question. Do yo
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00047.html (10,237 bytes)
- 15. Re: [RFI] VLF interference Re: CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:58:15 -0600
- I had no idea. I had assumed that if the previous occupant had signed legislation, especially energy-related, that it was just some giveaway to his (Cheney's) buddies. Lo and behold, it looks like th
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00053.html (10,349 bytes)
- 16. Re: [RFI] VLF interference Re: CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 18:07:21 -0600
- Excellent point - how many fires are caused each year by Mr Edison's little space heaters? Yeah, we had a garage one go as well. Wife assembled a plastic shelving unit, about 6' high, and moved it ov
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00054.html (9,577 bytes)
- 17. Re: [RFI] VLF interference Re: CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 18:10:14 -0600
- Wrong. I read it more carefully - they did what I thought they should do. Incandescents will be perfectly legal after 2014 if they meet the exceptions (like appliance bulbs) or they meet the new effi
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00055.html (10,154 bytes)
- 18. Re: [RFI] VLF interference Re: CFLs and LEDs (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:54:56 -0600
- They just have a plastic dome over the pigtail. Not cure if the electronics are different or not. You also get a yellow-tinted "bug lite" variety. We got ours at either Home Depot or Lowe's, IOW, not
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00065.html (10,221 bytes)
- 19. Re: [RFI] 40 M QRN (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:15:27 -0600
- You don't hear it at all on the portable? I assume you tune it to the same band/freq. Have you tried hooking up the portable to your 4-square just to see if it hears it at all? -- Peter Laws | N5UWY
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-02/msg00087.html (6,701 bytes)
- 20. Re: [RFI] FOUND! - Looking for ideas about yet another noise source (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:45:41 -0500
- So this was static discharge from the SWL's longwire?? -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com h
- /archives//html/RFI/2009-07/msg00037.html (9,294 bytes)
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