RFI
Most of the members have read some of the posts about RFI generated by various systems in our homes, RVs and tow vehicles. A lot of you laugh it off, thinking, "It doesn't apply to me." Well, g...
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Very interesting article however I find these three paragraphs of particular interest
Private signal sleuths, too, hunt down errant emissions. Jay Jacobsmeyer, president of wireless-engineering consultants Pericle Communications Co., investigates interference at 150 to 200 cell sites a year, mostly for wireless clients. His team last November faced a puzzling signal in San Diego that would pop up, disappear for weeks, then resume.
Using directional equipment, it identified a cordless phone on a yacht that occasionally visited, Mr. Jacobsmeyer says. The skipper agreed not to use the system in port.
Radio hobbyist Tom Thompson of Boulder, Colo., last year tracked a signal using a homemade contraption. After knocking on the suspect's door, he traced it to ballasts on marijuana grow-room lights. He says he built a filter that the grower agreed to use.
Man oh Man what some people will do
Private signal sleuths, too, hunt down errant emissions. Jay Jacobsmeyer, president of wireless-engineering consultants Pericle Communications Co., investigates interference at 150 to 200 cell sites a year, mostly for wireless clients. His team last November faced a puzzling signal in San Diego that would pop up, disappear for weeks, then resume.
Using directional equipment, it identified a cordless phone on a yacht that occasionally visited, Mr. Jacobsmeyer says. The skipper agreed not to use the system in port.
Radio hobbyist Tom Thompson of Boulder, Colo., last year tracked a signal using a homemade contraption. After knocking on the suspect's door, he traced it to ballasts on marijuana grow-room lights. He says he built a filter that the grower agreed to use.
Man oh Man what some people will do
