Re: [IRCA] Clear Channel article

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Rene Tetro <rene@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> So, who's to blame for all this noise?  Poor maintenance by power
> companies, 
> phone companies, cable companies, and so on are major factors -- but
> mostly 
> the blame can be  placed squarely on the population at large.  Our
> gadget 
> oriented society has produced so much poorly designed and shielded
> equipment 
> that leakage into power and phone lines - and into the atmosphere
> itself - 
> is just horrendous.  Light dimmers, computers (anything with a 
> microprocessor, really), the increased use of fluorescent bulbs in
> the home, 
> poorly designed RF devices (cordless phones, etc), and so many other
> things 
> all combine to make noise across the LW-MW-HF spectrum an almost 
> insurmountable issue.

*** While I don't for a minute disagree with the above, there's one
important addition --- a decline in the quality of receivers rendering
current ones incapable of rejecting verious sorts of man-made
interference which are still rejected by older, better quality units.

And we haven't even gotten into the subject of BPL....




Russ Edmunds
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