Hello all,
tks for all answers.
Pardon me if this is OT, but it really has to be said often to
enable us to get maximum joy out of using our Elecraft
transceivers in today's world of consumer electronics (does
that make it on topic?).
I have already talked with our FCC and my neighbors should complain to
services, they will come here and check for everything. Of course if
cause of interferencies is my neighbors TV-set and computer they will
pay services :)
yesterday evening I was calling on 17m when a lady warned me that
I was doing interferencies on her TV and computer.
I've been dealing with ham RFI (or more accurately, unwanted
signal interception) issues both as a generator and as a
resolver for about 50 years now, 30 of them with the FCC, and
the most important thing that I would add in large letters is:
DO NOT WORK ON OR OFFER TO WORK ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S EQUIPMENT
Failure to follow this advice would embroil the operator into a
lifelong obligation to be the unpaid repair person for every
glitch and bad-design result in the neighbor's equipment, and a
vector for every complaint, real or imaginary, whether the
operator was on the air or not.
I advise my ham clients that they have three obligations:
* Make absolutely sure that their equipment and operations are
in full compliance with FCC standards and their license
authorization.
* Offer to be available at reasonable times to make a
reasonable amount of on-the-air transmission tests for the
affected neighbor and/or their repair technician to
determine the effectiveness of any remedial actions that the
neighbor and/or their repair technician make.
* Be a gentleman or lady (as applicable) in dealing with the
neighbor because nothing will be solved otherwise. If the
neighbor doesn't reciprocate, do not fight fire with fire.
It makes things worse.
In the past I had a very curious story about tv interferencies, when I
worked in shifts I remenber to arrive home, after a night shift, when a
guy approched and asked me:
are u ham ? I said yes and he replayed that last night his tv-set
received a lot of TVI, I answered him that I was in shift, so no
possible to be me, anyway he said that fault was mine and a complain was
going to our FCC.
2 days later I was checking his tv-set installation and was all a mess,
a coax not connected to building antenna cable, bad connection between
coax and tv-set etc etc etc, at that time I fixed and warned about bad
conditions.
2 days later I met guy and he said me that I was full of reason but even
that way he was about to complain :) :) :) :) . I never had problems
with our FCC cause of neighbors :) :) .
Gone are the days when we could solve most things with
supplying high-pass filters and vacuum tube adapters with
disc caps from grid to ground for audio stages.
People nowadays are very complicated and difficult to talk.
-- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
ARRL Volunteer Counsel
(and a lot more things)
Best 73 and nice weekend.
CT1DRB
David Quental
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