[Elecraft] Dish/Direct TV RFI?

[Edward R Cole]

None seen here!  Had had both Dish-Net and Direct-TV.  Old 1.8m dish 
was mounted about 30-foot from my 16-foot eme dish where I run 125w 
on 1296.  No problems even with big dish pointed at the sat-TV dish.

My HF antennas are above the ham shack which other side of bedroom 
wall from 46-inch Samsung TV (which uses  home theater system).  6m 
does get into the subwoofer (audio rectification) when I  run 80w+ 
(my wife just turns off the subwoofer if I am on 6m).  I tried 
wrapping audio cables thru a big ferrite donut (no help).  New 1.2m 
dish on the roof is about 40-feet away from my HF tower: Hygain 
tribander and 80/40m inverted-V.  My 630m inverted-L wire passes over 
the dish about 20-feet above it.

I have both K3 and KX3,

Once you go with satellite-TV you will never chose cable again.  They 
aren't perfect but the local dealer gets out pretty fast if you have 
tech problems.  We mainly use sat-TV for watching local news&wx 
(Anchorage - 70mi North of us) and network programs (NBC, ABC, CBS, 
PBS) which are linked from local stations thru the satellite.  Now 
that air broadcasts are digital, signal is too weak to use a TV 
antenna (I'd rather use tall towers for ham radio).

Both Dish-Net and Direct-TV receive near 11-GHz microwave so are 
pretty much insensitive to most ham frequencies (I currently operate 
up to 1296).

73, Ed - KL7UW
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From: Reed <w4jz at bellsouth.net>
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Dish/Direct TV RFI?


Has anyone had trouble with RFI, receive or transmit, with Dish or
Direct TV.? I have cable through Comcast & tired of their rate increases
so thought I give satellite a try since looks like more bang for the buck.

Thanks,

Reed? W4JZ


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