Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights.

2020-08-22 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/20/2020 6:07 PM, ab2tc wrote: Does anybody have any experiences like this and/or any suggestions what to do? This, and a lot of other noise sources, are addressed extensively in these two pdfs. http://k9yc.com/KillingReceiveNoise.pdf http://k9yc.com/KillingRXNoiseVisalia.pdf 73, Jim

Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe).

2020-08-21 Thread Mark Musick
...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Phil Kane Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 18:31 To: ab2tc Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe). On 8/21/2020 10:36 AM, ab2tc wrote: > Thanks for your response and I did receive several private E-mails as w

Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe).

2020-08-21 Thread JP Douglas
A friend of mine had same issues a couple of years ago here in Maine, turned out it was marijuana growers using non approved chinese grow lights brought in illegally through Canada and being sold in Portland, ME. We put an end to that, the FCC deputised my friend...even got in the Portland

Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe).

2020-08-21 Thread Phil Kane
On 8/21/2020 10:36 AM, ab2tc wrote: > Thanks for your response and I did receive several private E-mails as well. > It sounds like a phone call to the power company should be my next move. If > I just could find a way to get to a live person without going through a > million automated responses

Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe).

2020-08-21 Thread ab2tc
Hi Ralph and all, Thanks for your response and I did receive several private E-mails as well. It sounds like a phone call to the power company should be my next move. If I just could find a way to get to a live person without going through a million automated responses and interminable waits!

Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights.

2020-08-21 Thread Harry Yingst via Elecraft
It could also be Metal Halide lights over someone's Saltwater Aquarium. I runĀ Metal Halide lights over my aquarium and mine are quiet.But I knew a guy who did not have his grounded and shieldedand they put out so much noise they wiped out his TV reception. I gave him a bunch of snapĀ on chokes

Re: [Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights.

2020-08-21 Thread RALPH TURK
Hi I had a similar situation here in Tucson AZ My spectrum analyzer,a Tek 492 showed groups of carrier like indications 10-20 db above the noise floor. First think I thought "Grow Lights" I was told that the osculator in a grow light is about 2.3 Mhz. The interference looked like it was

[Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights.

2020-08-20 Thread ab2tc
Hello all, https://www.edn.com/how-cops-are-finding-grow-ops-with-am-radios/ The above is a link to an article in the EDN magazine (a technical journal primarily aimed at EEs). The article is more than five years old, but maybe it is only recently this type of interference has started to show up