[Scan-DC] Topic drift on RF interference

[Sheldon Daitch]

I've got amalgam fillings and guess my dentist(s) did something right.  

I work around transmitters of a slightly higher power range and I've never
had any issue with RF pickup.  Obviously, YMMV.

One area where we have had some issues with RF "interference" is at 
a location or two where neighbors had operating cranes.  At one location
where we had a 1000kW MW transmitter, the port folks about a mile away
would occasionally complain about arcing when they didn't properly ground
their lift equipment.  

We've got exclusively metal studs in our transmitter buildings, and they are 
bonded to the building ground when around the transmitters, but nothing
unique in the office areas.

73
Sheldon

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Granville (Granny) Klink (no kidding), who was the Chief Engineer for years at WTOP, told great stories how the signal was recieved by everything from braces and filings to the metal studs used in the construction of some nearby buildings.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Hansen" <Rick.Hansen at apsglobal.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:17 AM
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> Back to the scanning aspect, when WTOP had a 50,000 watt transmitter in
> Wheaton (is it still there?) the signal would get picked up by telephones 
> in
> the area. I spend a day at a friend's house putting bypass capacitors on 
> the
> telephone jacks. My fillings never picked it up, but some people claimed 
> it
> would play in their head when they drove by on University Boulevard. Ah, 
> for
> the days of dental fillings using mercury...
>