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Re: [RFI] Noise changes when room lights turn on / off

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Subject: Re: [RFI] Noise changes when room lights turn on / off
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:35:51 -0700
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On 9/15/2012 5:22 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
Incredibly, the coiled handset cord while I was seated was immune to RFI---but 
as soon as it was outstretched, it must have acted like a resonant loaded 
vertical on 10-meters!

Why do you use the word "incredibly" to describe simple antenna action?

No amount of handset bypassing / filtering ever eliminated the RFI in the 
cord's uncoiled state

This might have succumbed to a couple of turns around a #43 or #31 ferrite core placed either on the cord to the handset, or to the telephone line cord.

FWIW, telephones are notoriously bad for RFI.

These RFI "war stories" are quite useful, including Pete's about those light switches. There's clearly something about the construction of those switches that is allowing noisy leakage current when the switch is off, and interior house wiring is radiating it.

73, Jim K9YC
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