On 7/6/2012 2:27 PM, 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
I had one of those via Radio Shack. Rabbit ears worked better. I took it
back. Maybe they've improved.
>>
>> 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 :).
You would if you run enough power. It'll go off and stay off.<:-))
73
Roger (K8RI)
>>
>> - Jerry Kaidor, KF6VB ( jerry@tr2.com )
>>
>>
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