It looks like the smaller mixture numbers are better for lower frequencies, so I had that wrong in my first post.
My focus is the AC house wiring, all circuits seem to be loaded with RFI. If I put a portable radio next to a filament bulb, I get tons of RFI when I switch it on, and the higher the bulb wattage, the more noise.
I started down this road when I had way too much noise in my Hammerlund HQ-100, even on the standby position, with no antenna connected.
Not much sense working on antennas, if the house is so full of RFI.
I did read that excellent article [tried to understand what I could] and went to the Fair-rite catalog. I don't see split chokes for LW and AM though. I see Delta make power filters for RFI, which may be what I need most. Thanks for the help, there is a lot to learn about this.
-FARMERIK
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--- In ultralightdx@..., "Mike Mayer" <mwmayer@...> wrote:
Peter,
I agree that the presentation you linked to is one of the best out there.
If you remember one thing it is that the suppression is proportional to the
square of the number of turns. The typical clamp-on ferrite is one turn (the
wire goes through once). If you look at some of the suggestions you will see
multiple turns. Two turns is four times as good, three turns is 9 time as
good, etc.
And yes, everything has either a noisy processor or a noisy switching power
supply. That is why another option is to use an external antenna away from
all of the noise sources in the house.
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Mike Mayer
mwmayer@...
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Subject: Re: [ultralightdx] Computer RFI problems-FARMERIK
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:35, farmerik <farmerik@...
<mailto:farmerik%40cox.net> > wrote:
Anyone out there RFI proofed there house already, and have any pointers?
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf
This is hardly a FAQ, but it is a good tutorial on RFI. It's
ham-oriented, but RF is RF and a lot of it is receive oriented (as
opposed to RFI from your own transmitter, though that is covered,
too). I'm about a 1/3 of the way through it. :-)
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