Hal,
It's not that simple. The original power line RFI I have been hearing
for fifteen years is in fact a 60-kHz line source modulated by a 60-Hz
square wave. I can hear it on a longwave receiver and verify with
oscilliscope at the synchronous detector in the radio. The stuff in our
machine room is wideband hash, allegedly due the UPSes, but it is
possible that some other switching regulator is causing the blast.
Doesn't matter either way; the WWVB receivers don't work.
I gave one of our WWVB receivers to the campus IT and suggested they
bring it up to see if they have the same problem as the department
machine room. No reply yet.
My three APC 2200 VA UPSes are reasonably good citizens, even though
they are FCC Class A devices. No trouble with the radios if the mains
have juice, but they do generate a wideband frying noise when on
battery. I haven't tried to find the inverter frequency. Whatever the
fundamental or harmonics, it doesn't affect any ham bands I occasionally
haunt when doing health and wellfare during hurricane season.
What specs I can find say nothing about the inverter frequency.
Dave
Hal Murray wrote:
We have a 6KVA Masterguard UPS in our Server room and no DCF77 reception
problems. Before that we used to have a smaller Masterguard UPS which
also was not problematic, so I guess they work for us DCF77 geeks.
Maybe somebody should start a web page listing UPSs that do/don't
interfere with low frequency time signals.
It would be even better if somebody could measure the switching
frequency or find it in the specs.
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