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Re: [RFI] Noise location tools

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Subject: Re: [RFI] Noise location tools
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:16:02 -0800
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On 1/19/2018 7:41 AM, Karin Johnson wrote:
I have successfully found about a dozen street lamps which had failing
sodium vapor lamps causing RFI.
The spectrum of the RFI was primarily located between about 5 MHz to an
upper limit of 8 MHz.

Great info, Karin. The next time this happens, can you grab some RF spectrum plots with waterfalls? I've found that these signatures can be quite helpful in providing clues about possible sources. The availability of low cost SDRs makes this easy.

73, Jim K9YC

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