Sometime in the recent past there was a ham in Houston, TX (I believe) who had interference that he traced to a neighbor who had two of those electric scooters, one for him and one for his wife. The noise was on every night and the battery charge circuits put trash on the AC lines that tore up the amateur bands.
He contacted the neighbor and told him of the problem so the neighbor allowed him to install filters in the lines used to charge the batteries. That fixed the problem, so the ham thought. Evidently the scooter owners did not like the filters and removed them. The ham tried for months to get the owners to reinstall the filters but they would not. The rest of the story is short. The FCC enforcement group finally interceded and sent letters (more than one) telling the owners to put the filters back in place. They ignored the letters and it cost them some fine, the amount I don't recall. Sad deal for two people who refused to follow the rules. But if you have an unintentional radiator then you can, after a process, get something done about it. If you are an ARRL member, contact Ed Hare, W1RFI and get some help. That will shorten the wait. 73 Jim/W5JO ----- Original Message ----- >I am not familiar with this particular system, but most X-10 equipment >uses > the home's power lines for transmission. If you are both on the same > transformer, you may be getting interference from your home's power > line. You > may need some power line filtering. Depending on your gear, you may be > subject to Part 15 rules which basically say that your equipment must > accept > various forms of interference. Regardless, it is a sticky wicket. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
