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Re: [RFI] Possible Solar inverter issue

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Subject: Re: [RFI] Possible Solar inverter issue
From: "Dave (NK7Z)" <dave@nk7z.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:25:13 -0700
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Hi Mike,

You may want to look over some notes I have on taking a site survey of your RFI at:

https://www.nk7z.net/sdr-rfi-survey-p1/

This is a two part article on setting up and visualizing your RFI environment.

I also have a presentation under "Presentations", covering steps you may need to take in reporting the RFI to get it corrected...

See: NK7Z.NET, and under the menu, look at presentations...

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73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources

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On 4/11/25 18:56, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
I am chasing down some noise.  The power company has been fantastic working with me.  Today he has found a house with solar that he says is quite noisy.

Will solar systems generate noise 24 x 7?  I would think not unless they have some sort of battery systems and maybe they all do.

The neighbor was not very helpful and I was not home at the time.  He told the RFI guy it was his modem and that he was not going to do anything......

We are going to try to contact the individual next week and ask if we can turn off the solar why I am home to see if it is the source.

The power company has lots of great tools from the company in Portland.

It sounds like typical power line hash to me.  I don't know what I should be looking for.  I believe there might be a site that has video and audio of various forms of noise, if so can someone point me to it?

No clue the brand or anything at this point.

Mike W0MU


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