Ran into the same problem with Star Lantern supervisor lights that mount inside 
the car. Never got it solved, on low band, radio unusable, VHF UHF you could 
hear it but dispatch was louder. 

--- On Mon, 11/16/09, Dan Blasberg <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Dan Blasberg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Code 3 - RFI
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 3:34 PM


What model where the mirror lights?  If they were an older model that  
has an internal ballast, upgrading them to non-ballast versions clears  
up the RFI.

Dan
KA8YPY


On Nov 16, 2009, at 3:03 PM, skipp025 wrote:

> Re: Code 3 - RFI
>
> Today's amusing Code 3 RFI story comes to you courtesy
> of modern LED Code 3 lighting hardware companies.
>
> A State Police Car arrives with missing receive audio
> radio complaints. In the interest of brevity... via a lot
> of searching to find the New Generation LED (Code-3)
> lighting generates more than enough RFI to pretty much
> disable the low band receiver. Not from the trunk mounted
> controller mind you but the unwanted RF energy radiates from
> the actual LED fixtures installed in each rear-view mirror.
>
> They're going back to "analog" (light bulbs) lighting at
> the cost of global warming. I might report them to Al Gore...
> but probably not anytime soon.
>
> :-)
>
> cheers,
> s.
>
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