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Offline atrainradio

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plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« on: October 30, 2013, 0016 UTC »
Just as halloween radio rises above the noise floor..........BOOM . Someone turns on the tv and an annoying hoorible buzz makes dx'ing on my radio a thing of past. I'm gonna take a sledge hammer to their damn tv and tell em to watch it on their ipohnes instead.
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Re: plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2013, 0022 UTC »
i got rid of 90% of the crap coming out of the big screen  just by switching to double shielded coax on my rx
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Re: plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2013, 0141 UTC »
RG6 Coax?
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Re: plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2013, 2317 UTC »
Quote from: atrainradio on October 30, 2013, 0016 UTC
Just as halloween radio rises above the noise floor..........BOOM . Someone turns on the tv and an annoying hoorible buzz makes dx'ing on my radio a thing of past. I'm gonna take a sledge hammer to their damn tv and tell em to watch it on their ipohnes instead.


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Re: plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2013, 0038 UTC »
Friend of mine game me a "free" 40" monitor. Its a circa 2005 Sony plasma. It stays unplugged unless I watch it.

However, LOTS of RFI, so I suspect a neighbor has one. Maybe multiple neighbors.




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Re: plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2013, 1544 UTC »
I know exactly what you are saying about the devices from hell...

Myself being in a very welly packed area with dozens of these devices around me...  errr... is it any wonder I stare at the ax in the corner and the bottle in the other... so far it's been the bottle...  but ;-)

What ever happened to the rules regarding 'unintentional radiators'?  what makes it worse is I am located by a MAJOR jetport...  It's even noisy on those frequencies...

sigh

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Re: plasmas and lcd tv's- an swl'ers nightmare.
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2013, 2028 UTC »
I have a Panasonic plasma in the house and it is indeed an atrocious RFI generator but I have learned to deal with it. If there's any good news, plasma screen technology generally seems to be losing popularity to LCD/LED screens. That, along with the inherent serviceability and repair issues with modern screens and rapidly evolving gotta-have-it features, probably means most of these plasma screens will be in the dump in a couple of more years. I hope mine will be.
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