If you get a opportunity to work with your neighbor you should check his
neutral line
and grouns where the TV set and VCR are plugged-in. Some locations that
are older
have oxidized connections that have low resistance and arching, etc. can
occur.
I've had plenty of experience in removal of RF from AC lines, POTS
lines, and TVI.
I always start with the AC input and go from there.
To nail it down you need some equipment like:
AC line filter extension cable to filter AC to the effected units.
75 ohm dummy load for the front-end of the TV or FM receivers.
COAX line filters/traps.
MFJ 259 (to seek out resonant speaker cables, coax down leads, AC
wires).
RF Field Strength Meter
Another ham to operate your station while you sniff out the RF at the
neighbors house.
IF you don't have complete support from your neighbor forget. Just make
sure your stuff
works, show him and let him be pissed-off at JVC or however makes the
junk that isn't
filtered properly.
Good Luck,
dave
p.s. on phone lines your common household variety common mode AC line
filter works better than anything
you can purchase for phone line interference. Just ensure you
ground the metal casing. That is key. I was
getting some much RF on one line I got nipped with RF...I used
seven of those cute little line filters from
ILL (I think Radio Shack sells them now) and still had
interference...one cheap little AC filter and it was
all gone. Works great on ISDN lines also...
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