[SixClub] Monitor RFI

[Gabriel Sierra]

Hi!

Buy her a flat panel monitor! You will make her happy
and you can say goodbye to the interference!

Gabriel Sierra, WP3BM


--- Zeb Palmer - KD7EVS <kd7evs at hangarz.com> wrote:
> My wife's computer monitor has long been a source of
> RFI squared on 50.125.
> and it's pretty strong.  I can hear it listening on
> 17m and 40m as well, but
> it's S9 on 50.125 as well as generally present away
> from 50.125 on 6m. <S3
> once you get away from that freq.      
> 
> I have taken steps to reduce this interference
> (ferrite etc) however I just
> found a way to remove it.   FYI. 
> 
> Though it is my wife's computer I use it a lot.
> (just distinguish it from
> mine it's the only one that she'll let out of my
> 'server room'. 
> 
> I occasionally use it for soundcard interfacing my
> 897 to play with APRS or
> whatever. 
> 
> My eyes are extremely sensitive when it comes to
> monitor refresh rate. I
> keep everything set to at least 70 on all my
> screens, I can tell that 60 is
> flashy and after a while my eyes will hurt. 
> 
> Well, in a bit of an experiment tonight when doing
> some work on 50.125 I
> decided to play some more with the settings of the
> monitor. Setting the
> refresh rate back to 60hz totally alleviated the
> problem on 50.125.   and
> after several spectrum analyzer scans I can't find
> that spike anywhere.
> But hey, it's not on 50.125 so I don't care! 
> 
> 50.125 is where my radio is always at, so now, I can
> "play 6 meters" while
> she does her writing. 
> 
> 
> WAHOO! 
> 
> 
> Seven Three
> And now that I can hear something other than buzzing
> on 6m I have the volume
> turned back up!
> 
> 
> KD7EVS a.k.a. Zeb in DN13up
> 
> 
>
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Gabriel Sierra
Moondancer Recording Studios
moonrec at prtc.net
http://www.moondancer.freeservers.com