FW: [Elecraft] Basement QRN

Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net
Sun Mar 9 17:52:16 EST 2008


You must have had a noisy switcher power supply for those low-voltage 
halogens. The halogen bulb is simply another conventional bulb with a 
filament and halogen gas is added to prevent the metal filament from 
evaporating. 110 V halogens would probably have been FB.

Jerry W4UK

At 05:42 PM 3/9/2008, Denise&Werner wrote:
>When I put my shack together I put in some halogen lighting from an overhead
>shelf that looked pretty cool till I turned on the lights.
>
>Talk about noise. It was like a blanket . I switched off the lights and it
>was gone.
>
>These were the low voltage halogens.
>
>By the way, I just ordered my K3 yesterday. I just couldn't stand to hear
>about all the fun I was missing.
>
>
>
>Werner   N8BB
>
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