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Pardon me if this is OT, but it really has to be said often to enable us to get maximum joy out of using our Elecraft transceivers in today's world of consumer electronics (does that make it on topic?). > yesterday evening I was calling on 17m when a lady warned me that > I was doing interferencies on her TV and computer. I've been dealing with ham RFI (or more accurately, unwanted signal interception) issues both as a generator and as a resolver for about 50 years now, 30 of them with the FCC, and the most important thing that I would add in large letters is: DO NOT WORK ON OR OFFER TO WORK ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S EQUIPMENT Failure to follow this advice would embroil the operator into a lifelong obligation to be the unpaid repair person for every glitch and bad-design result in the neighbor's equipment, and a vector for every complaint, real or imaginary, whether the operator was on the air or not. I advise my ham clients that they have three obligations: * Make absolutely sure that their equipment and operations are in full compliance with FCC standards and their license authorization. * Offer to be available at reasonable times to make a reasonable amount of on-the-air transmission tests for the affected neighbor and/or their repair technician to determine the effectiveness of any remedial actions that the neighbor and/or their repair technician make. * Be a gentleman or lady (as applicable) in dealing with the neighbor because nothing will be solved otherwise. If the neighbor doesn't reciprocate, do not fight fire with fire. It makes things worse. Gone are the days when we could solve most things with supplying high-pass filters and vacuum tube adapters with disc caps from grid to ground for audio stages. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 ARRL Volunteer Counsel (and a lot more things) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
Re: Fwd: Re: TV and computer interferencies - K3's fault ?
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tks for all answers. > Pardon me if this is OT, but it really has to be said often to > enable us to get maximum joy out of using our Elecraft > transceivers in today's world of consumer electronics (does > that make it on topic?). > > I have already talked with our FCC and my neighbors should complain to services, they will come here and check for everything. Of course if cause of interferencies is my neighbors TV-set and computer they will pay services :) >> yesterday evening I was calling on 17m when a lady warned me that >> I was doing interferencies on her TV and computer. >> > I've been dealing with ham RFI (or more accurately, unwanted > signal interception) issues both as a generator and as a > resolver for about 50 years now, 30 of them with the FCC, and > the most important thing that I would add in large letters is: > > DO NOT WORK ON OR OFFER TO WORK ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S EQUIPMENT > > Failure to follow this advice would embroil the operator into a > lifelong obligation to be the unpaid repair person for every > glitch and bad-design result in the neighbor's equipment, and a > vector for every complaint, real or imaginary, whether the > operator was on the air or not. > > I advise my ham clients that they have three obligations: > > * Make absolutely sure that their equipment and operations are > in full compliance with FCC standards and their license > authorization. > > * Offer to be available at reasonable times to make a > reasonable amount of on-the-air transmission tests for the > affected neighbor and/or their repair technician to > determine the effectiveness of any remedial actions that the > neighbor and/or their repair technician make. > > * Be a gentleman or lady (as applicable) in dealing with the > neighbor because nothing will be solved otherwise. If the > neighbor doesn't reciprocate, do not fight fire with fire. > It makes things worse. > > worked in shifts I remenber to arrive home, after a night shift, when a guy approched and asked me: are u ham ? I said yes and he replayed that last night his tv-set received a lot of TVI, I answered him that I was in shift, so no possible to be me, anyway he said that fault was mine and a complain was going to our FCC. 2 days later I was checking his tv-set installation and was all a mess, a coax not connected to building antenna cable, bad connection between coax and tv-set etc etc etc, at that time I fixed and warned about bad conditions. 2 days later I met guy and he said me that I was full of reason but even that way he was about to complain :) :) :) :) . I never had problems with our FCC cause of neighbors :) :) . > Gone are the days when we could solve most things with > supplying high-pass filters and vacuum tube adapters with > disc caps from grid to ground for audio stages. > People nowadays are very complicated and difficult to talk. > -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > ARRL Volunteer Counsel > (and a lot more things) > Best 73 and nice weekend. CT1DRB David Quental > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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