[Elecraft] K3S "HI-RFI" warning a bit too sensitive?

Dave Cole dave at nk7z.net
Fri Jun 17 07:58:53 EDT 2016


On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 06:30 -0500, Chris L wrote:
> A baby monitor. Yep, not one block from my house lives a couple with a
> cheap 49MHz baby monitor blasting away on 49.850MHz all hours of the
> day and night. A short "fox hunt" with a service monitor confirmed
> this.  There is 100KHz worth of splatter coming from this thing and my
> old Icom 706 shows it as S9 with the attenuator on (and S9 +60
> without). I spoke with someone at the house and confirmed that this
> was the problem by shutting down the device for an hour.
> Unfortunately, the couple's mother-in-law lives with them and insists
> on using the baby monitor all day and night.
> Chris
> KB9SDX
> 

Chris,
Make sure they know that the baby monitor is transmitting every word
they say, (assuming it does).  That will more than likely change their
minds.
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73's, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
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73's, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
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http://www.nk7z.net



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