We bought a new Keurig coffee maker which does a pot or also the pods. It puts a huge noise out to the ham frequencies. Have to turn it off to get on 80M
Chuck Jack Hawley KE9UW Sent from my iPhone, cjack > On Feb 18, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Bill Lederer <[email protected]> wrote: > > House we just moved into, we did new under-the-counter lighting. Once I > got the ham shack started, I saw s9 noise on 160 and 80. Turn them off, and > it becomes quiet. > > Other led panel lights produce no noise whatsoever. > > But now that that is identified, I will be tracking down some other noise, > likely in the neighborhood. > > w8lvn > >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 5:29 PM Fred Nassar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Had a similar issue moving to a new QTH. It turned out to be a bad >> transformer in the neighborhood. You could call in an RFI complaint once >> you rule out your own QTH and asked them to sniff around. >> >> You can also sniff around with a 2 or 6 meter SSB rig if you have one. >> >> Fred >> KE4Q >> >>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 5:47 PM Michael Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> HI Andreas >>> >>> Sorry to hear about your noise. >>> >>> I doubt your noise is related to digital TV as that is a long way away in >>> the frequency world. It is pretty common to assume that it is not on >> your >>> own property. I saw one guy who said the same thing and then found out a >>> year later it was his new dryer that was noisy even when they were not >>> using it. >>> >>> I would not be surprised that most of your HF noise is within your own >>> property unless you did some significant research by holding an AM radio >>> near each and every power cube or charger for phones, etc. There are not >>> too many that are quiet. >>> >>> I use my KX2 to find most of my HF noise issues and I must have tossed >> out >>> 15 bad chargers. The ones I could not just toss away, I had to add Mix >> 31 >>> chokes to. >>> >>> When you moved into your new house did you replace all the light bulbs >> with >>> LED bulbs? They can be noisy. >>> >>> If you haven't taken the time to do an indepth study on your own house, >> you >>> should. You might be surprised. I would plan an all day exercise when >>> everyone is out of the house. >>> >>> Mike va3mw >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I might suspect something else... >>>> >>>> Have you done a power off test of your home yet? >>>> >>>> 73, and thanks, >>>> Dave (NK7Z) >>>> https://www.nk7z.net >>>> ARRL Volunteer Examiner >>>> ARRL Technical Specialist >>>> ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources >>>> >>>> On 2/18/20 8:29 AM, Andreas Wachter via Elecraft wrote: >>>>> I live about 1.6 miles from some tall antenna towers broadcasting >>>> digital TV (KBCB) at 208 kW ERP on channel 19 (500 - 506 MHz) and on FM >>>> (KWPZ-FM) at 63 kW ERP on 106.5MHz - according to FCC info on KBCB and >>>> KWPZ-FM. Ever since I moved to this QTH a few months ago, I am unable >> to >>>> use my K3: solid S9+ noise on all bands using a makeshift dipole strung >>> up >>>> on some trees outside my house. I’ve tried to locate the source of the >>> RFI >>>> within my home but so far have been unable to locate any RFI emanating >>> from >>>> within my home. Could it be that the TV/FM stations antenna towers, >> which >>>> are within direct line of sight from my house, might be responsible for >>> the >>>> RFI? >>>>> >>>>> 73, Andreas >>>>> >>>>> K6AKW >>>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>>>> >>>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>>> Message delivered to [email protected] >>>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to [email protected] >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to [email protected] >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > > > > -- > --w8lvn-- > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
