I think I'd tell them that their electronic dog fence is obviously
defective, and could be a fire hazard. These things are normally as quiet
as church-mice. Could be they have a break in their loop (underground) or
a fault in the driver - they are fairly prone to lightning damage. Take a
portable radio with you.
73, Pete N4ZR
At 10:12 PM 2/7/2008, Gary Smith wrote:
>Huge thanks to Tony K2MO who sent me the following link
>http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/rfi-noise/
>
>I found the culprit at the bottom of the Miscellaneous Equipment
>page: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/rfi-noise/misc.html It's an
>electric Dog Fence! The noise sample of it provided there shows just
>how strong it is.
>
>Now how to tell someone I don't know that their way overpriced Dog
>Fence is tearing up the airwaves...
>
>Gary
>KA1J
>
> > There's a neighbor that has something active which generates RFI in
> > the car radio whenever I drive past their house. It's enough to be
> > louder than 880 AM out of New York City which is a really strong
> > station at the end of Long Island Sound. On my car radio it ranges 100
> > feet either side of their house (Not sure which house it is as there
> > are several on both sides of the street that it could be).
> >
> > I've noticed the exact same sound when driving by a particular house
> > in a heavily wooded area so it would only be coming from that house.
> >
> > This sound is pulsed about 4 times a second & digital in character.
> >
> > My complaint is it's easily heard at the low end of 160 meters and
> > bothers my reception from 500-600 feet away.
> >
> > Is there a series of RFI sounds on a web page that I seem to recall
> > being made available so as to ID common sources of rfi? I don't know
> > any of the people in the houses this RFI is coming from but if it's
> > something I can pinpoint I at least have a place to start.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gary
> > KA1J
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