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Re: [Amps] Amplified TV Antenna

To: Bill Fuqua <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>,<jerry@tr2.com>,<amps@contesting.com>, amPS <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Amplified TV Antenna
From: bill NY9H <ny9H@arrl.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:31:39 -0400
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MY NEIGHBOR..
had multiple lamps (touch controlled ) in a canopy on their bed !!!!

IT DID NOT LIKE 20

( FILL IN THE BLANK )


At 02:27 PM 7/6/2012, Bill Fuqua wrote:
>    I once had a noise problem that I just could not locate.
>Late one night I was working DX and had an amplifier I just purchased.
>I was normally running 100 watts then.
>    My station was in the attached garage at that time and there was a window
>with a rather thin curtain on it facing my neighbor's house. I notice a bit of
>light illuminating the curtain when I transmitted. Then it would go off a
>bit later.
>I got up and looked out the window and noticed it was my neighbors bedroom
>light. After a while it stayed off and the noise problem went away.
>     My guess is that they had a touch lamp in the bedroom and they finally
>assumed
>that it was defective and unplugged it so they could sleep.
>     I never told my neighbor about it. Oddly enough, the husband 
> later got his
>ham ticket and was active for a few years.
>
>73
>Bill wa4lav
>
>
>At 11:13 AM 7/6/2012 -0700, Jerry Kaidor wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >    Need a little advice here.  TV reception has been marginal at this QTH
> >since we moved in 8 months ago.  Well, that's with an antenna made of
> >300ohm
> >twinlead thumbtacked to the wall.  XYL has been bugging me for something
> >better.  BTW, there is no trace whatsoever of interference from the ham
> >station, even when pushing out 900W.  It probably helps that the actual
> >antenna is 100 feet up the hill.
> >
> >    So I bought one of these on Amazon:
> >
> >http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JT0FWY/
> >
> >    It has decent reviews, unlike many indoor antennas.
> >
> >....I figured I could make a pole mount for it on a stand and just set the
> >stand on the floor.
> >
> >    Now I am having second thoughts.  The thing has an internal amplifier,
> >and there's an RF remote for it.   The station is about 10 feet away.
> >If this antenna reacts badly to my HF leakage I will be screwed.  If
> >OTOH I use something passive, I can always stick an HPF in its coax.
> >Maybe
> >
> >    Last night I started a QSO with a 2, courtesy of the Alpha - and the
> >XYL started yelling at me from downstairs.  I tried to ignore her, she
> >screamed louder and louder.  Seems we recently bought a pair of
> >bookcases.  Each bookcase has a backlight and a touch control for the
> >backlight.  One of the backlights was turning on and off - actually
> >cycling through its three brightnesses.  I was able to fix the problem
> >by just unplugging the offending bookcase.  Wouldn't be able to do that
> >with the TV :).
> >
> >                       - Jerry Kaidor, KF6VB ( jerry@tr2.com )
> >
> >
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