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

[Edward R Cole]

Don't you just love modern technology!

I'm lucky as my fire/smoke alarms are all old cheapies from 
HomeDepot; not interlocked and just "beep" when set off by heat or 
smoke.  I think one might be better off using wireless cameras (2.4 
or 5 GHz).  I had a 2.4 GHz camera (from RS) to watch my dog kennel 
which has a yard light at night.  But too many wifi in the 
neighborhood ruined all four channels (big black rolling 
bars).  Newer cameras are going to 5-GHz but so is wifi.

My wife runs wifi for her Ipad-3 periodically, but has had no impact 
on my ham bands.  Nice that the FCC backed you with the neighbor - 
but watch your back!

Still QRT with moose-broken inverted-L.  I will get it fixed pretty 
soon.  First snow of the year, today, so a scramble to finish outdoor 
stuff this week.  Snowblower gets installed on the lawn tractor and 
the backup walk-behind snow blower goes to repair tomorrow (earliest 
date my mechanic would take it).  Hard winter will be here by Halloween.

73, Ed - KL7UW - /45

At 12:00 PM 10/20/2014, Warren K2ORS wrote:
>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
>>
>>*"I use the original form of social networking: Amateur Radio." *
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