[600MRG] [Lowfer] Smoke alarm woes...

[Warren K2ORS]

Neil,

      I trigger the neighbor's smoke alarm when transmitting QRO on 160m 
- its one of the new alarms that are all hard-wired into the power and 
also networked together so when one goes off they all go off. The 
neighbor has been a real a**hole even before this came up ... they 
complained to the FCC and the FCC asked what I was running - long story 
short the FCC gave me the green light and told the neighbor to go to 
Radioshack and buy some filers :-)

      I do get into my security camera system when on 500kHz - not 
surprising given the long cables connecting the cameras to the dvr - and 
this is when I run 60W output on 500...   Tough one to solve, it would 
take a mound of ferrite to have appreciable choking action on 500kc!

    73 & GL!
Warren




On 10/20/2014 3:17 PM, Neil Klagge wrote:
> I am bummed. This morning I put my amplifier on 630m at the 50 watt level.
> The smoke/fire alarm was triggered in the new house immediately. So, for
> the time being, I am stuck at 15 watts into the coax and ~20mW ERP.
>
> Read some similar woes on eham.net and not too encouraged about finding an
> acceptable solution at this time.
>
> Have any of you had a similar experience that you were able to solve??
>
> Bummed in Vancouver WA
> Neil
>
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