At 04:55 PM 12/7/2011, Clint Bradford wrote:
It is your neighbor's sub-par electronics that are not properly
filtered/insulated. But no one wants to hear that they need to purchase
a new audio-visual system so a neighbor can play with amateur radio ... (grin)
This is one of our greatest "public relations" problems with the
hobby: Educating non-hams as to what we are doing, why it might cause
interference in their setups, and why we like ugly antennas ...
First - 50W for '50 and '27 is ridiculously high power. You are
crippling yourself with sub-par antennas for working the LEOs. I mean, a
fifteen dollar tape measure beam and a single Watt gets the job done.
Yep, don't forget that a good antenna and QRP will go a LONG way
towards reducing TVI. I've found a few Watts near the horizon down
to 200mW at high elevation is all most of the FM birds need, if you
have a decent directional antenna. And a directional antenna will
also mean less TVI for the neighbour.
73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com
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