Re: [IRCA] noise issue (What about the FCC?)

["Martin Foltz" <martinfoltz@xxxxxxx>]

We just had a smart meter added to my gas meter. I'm curious to see if it
causes more noise but how to isolate? Maybe I should wrap it in aluminum
foil! The noise floor has increased around here in the past couple years.
Shortwave is suffering. I tried LW and I hear few beacons but lots of noise.
MW has lots of noise between the stations that you know is across the band.

Mike, you're right about air cleaners. My wife bought a couple (Sharper
Image, Oreck) and they all get turned off when the radio is on. We got a Wii
for Christmas and it needs to be unplugged! Just about everything that gets
plugged in now is a noise generator.

Martin Foltz
Mission Viejo CA


> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:01:39 -0700
> From: Mike Hawkins
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> 	<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] noise issue (What about the FCC?)
> 
> I don't know that the FCC pays any attention to this anymore.
> Considering
> the RF noise that is generated by CFL lighting, fluorescent lighting
> (across
> the board), Sharper Image (and other electrostatic) air cleaners, I
> think
> the other cheek has been turned in unimaginable ways.  I am currently
> isolating a source of noise that starts every week day at 0400, and on
> the
> weekend at 0500 that I believe is coming from the new smart meters that
> the
> utility is using.  Who knows what the result will be.
> 
> On the house wiring topic specifically, the last house that I lived in
> was a
> electrical mess.  I could not listen to AM radio inside the house, and
> walked around with a battery-powered Grundig to home in on the noise
> source.  The main electrical panel was markedly warm.  I called the
> utility,
> and they said there was strong arcing inside, but it was the
> responsibility
> of the owner.  The owner didn't care at all, because he hoped it would
> burn
> and he could use insurance money to put up a custom home on the huge
> lot.
> If the noise is coming from the house, you might be stuck,  If its
> wiring
> going to the house, the utility may have responsibility to repair it.
> 
> Mike Hawkins


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