[Repeater-Builder] Code 3 - RFI
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.
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Code 3 - RFI
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. Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Code 3 - RFI
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 ka8...@verizon.net wrote: From: Dan Blasberg ka8...@verizon.net Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Code 3 - RFI To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com 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. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links
