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jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation :-).  The second AM radio interference
>> appeared last June; my current hypothesis is that some flavor of
>> home security system is interfering but I haven't figured out how to
>> test it.
>
> There are all sorts of things that will interfere with AM broadcast.
>
> There is currently a brouhaha over home improvement stores selling
> industrial fluorescent light ballasts that are not marked as such
> and are being put into homes. These ballasts generate huge amounts
> of RFI, which is fine for the industrial environment.
>
> Some common sources of RFI: fluorescent lights, furnace ignitors,
> electric fences, computer and networking systems, Uninterruptible Power
> Supplies, motorized exercise equipment, bad wiring, grow lights.
>
> Use a battery powered AM radio as a sniffer and you may be able to
> find the source. Try turning anything you may suspece off and on.

I know it's not in the house.  Some day, I'll take my radio and
try to triangulate the first interference.  I don't know how to
investigate the second interference since the sound is constant
and is turned off/on early in the morning.

>
>> OK.  I'll look into filters.  When I lived in Mass., I bought an
>> electric kitchen stove.  In order to listen to any AM radio, I had
>> to unplug the stove; filters didn't stop the interference.
>
> Nope, not much you can do about that except complain BOTH to the
> manufacturer and the FCC.

I did complain to the stove manufacturer; the comment I got back
from the tech is that "noone listens to AM radio anymore".

>
>> I don't know what was causing it.  My hypothesis is that something
>> having to do with road construction was the cause since it stopped
>> right after Labor Day.
>
> Really weird.

Yea.  note it's just a hypothesis but it's the only thing I can
think of which is seasonal to match the dates of the problem.
>
>> I understand that.  When there is snow on the ground (even though
>> there are leaves on the trees) I have a lot less problems with
>> reception.  However, foliage shouldn't affect receiving a signal
>> for an hour or so and then no signal after that.
>
> That is just probably marginal propagation, a better antenna should
> cure that.
>
>> Everything is coax and the antenna is for digital.  It is not
>> an outdoor antienna; I had a new roof put on the house and
>> decided I didn't want any holes in it, so the outdoor antenna
>> went away (it was not coax).
>>
>> I simply don't understand digial; no experiments with antenna
>> postiioning works.  Some nights (I only have the TV on for
>> a couple hours each night) going into the bathroom can
>> interfere the reception; other nights moving my head while
>> I sit in the chair will interfere; (my chair is on the other
>> side of the antenna w.r.t. the tower).
>
> It is marginal signal propagation and being disturbed by things
> around the house.

I assumed that but shouldn't the disturbances be constant and
reproducible w.r.t. position?  That's one of the things which
puzzles me.
>
> I'm afraid the only solution for TV is a real, outside antenna
> with coax.
>
> If you are dead set against holes in the roof, then a pole and
> an eve bracket.

Yea :-( Putting up an outside antenna doesn't guarantee reception
if this palce in the midst of an interference whirlwind, especially
if I'm in the eye.

Anyway Congress is on my big shit list for selling off the analog.

/BAH

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