Matt and ALL others posting your RFI report says nothing about the location of
your antennas as to how far away and how high they are relative to your Furnace
and or AC system. Matt's report on the Trane furnace is perfect except he too
left
out this most important part.
A really great report would be something like My Scanning All HF and VHF
frequency transistor radio make model .. when placed near the furnace hears
nothing no RFI No Birdies or an SDR where one can watch the waterfall across
all
band frequencies and again the SDR placed near the furnace or AC system.
I am very glad that TRANE has implemented the RFI changes into their furnaces.
One of my local friends bought one a few years ago and went through all sorts
of
things before they solved it for him.
John k9uwa
On 27 May 2020 at 9:24, Matt Foster wrote:
> We recently had to replace our entire HVAC system. Our existing system had
> been causing me RFI from its ECM fan motor (the "birdies" about every 18
> KHz). Needless to say, I was concerned about RFI from the new system and
> expressed as much to each of the three contractors from whom we received
> bids.
>
> The contractor we ended up going with was an authorized Trane distributor,
> and they spent the better part of a day investigating the potential for RFI
> with
> their regional Trane representative. I had provided them with information
> regarding the Trane "RFI Kit" that I had seen referenced in email lists from
> about 9-10 years ago. They ended up concluding that the components of the RFI
> Kit were now included routinely on Trane equipment (I was unable to confirm
> that
> independently, so I took them at their word). As for the other two
> contractors,
> one seemed to not understand the issue at all and had no interest in learning
> about it, and the other was basically pushing it back on me to deal with.
>
> I'm happy to report that our new system (XR16 compressor and XV80 furnace)
> is causing ZERO RFI in my shack! I'm hoping that others who are shopping
> for new HVAC equipment will find this useful.
>
> 73, Matt, N0EYE
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