[Boatanchors] OT CFLs

[Jim Wilhite]

I finished my new house and moved in the end of December.  It was a 
treat to choose new light fixtures and illuminations sources.  In the 
garage the electrician furnished 4' florescent fixtures that uses two 
bulbs.  In the house we had to choose florescent fixtures for several 
places because, guess what, they don't make fixtures that use 
incandescent bulbs that fit the location and decor my wife chose.

Working in the garage , I rolled my HRO 60 out and plugged it in with a 
short piece of wire to play while I assembled my tower legs and the 
noise was unbelievable.  When I have the receiver on the upper BC 
frequencies that the F coil tunes there are buzzies all up the band to 
2.0 meg. but I can hear stations that register S 5 on the meter near 
1500 Kc.  On the lower part of the BC band from .5 to 950 Kc the buzzies 
are so bad that even the strongest stations suffer enough interference 
that I can't hear them with the piece of wire.

Gentlemen we have been screwed by GE and the government.  I heard that 
the current house has proposed to reverse the ban on incandescent bulbs. 
I sure hope they are successful because in this period of time I have 
had to replace two bulbs already and my new house is full of them.   LED 
is a choice but the price of replacement bulbs is terrific.  I'm just a 
poor boy.

Jim/W5JO


----- Original Message ----- 

 I have switched to almost 100%
> LED's and have seen no increase in RFI... My noise floor here in 
> Mesquite
> Texas runs right at S2 on 75 meters... The rest of the house that is 
> not on
> LED's is on CFL... I replace a few more every month and toss the
> CFL's...Another couple months and will be 100% LED with the exception 
> of
> fridge and oven lights...Not all incandescent is going away...