Subj : Re: Have you experienced 6m RFI?  Myth or Reality?
To   : Matty
From : fusion
Date : Tue May 06 2025 08:03 pm

On 01 May 2025, Matty said the following...
 
 Ma>  k9> Have you actually seen real 6m RFI?  
 Ma> 
 Ma> Years ago when I had a 6 meter station setup, it caused my neighbors
 Ma> garage door to open and close, also my motion activated security lights
 Ma> would turn on, and my wireless doorbell would ding-dong.  The issues
 Ma> were not as sever with low-power.  If I remember, anything over 50 watts
 Ma> was bad.  I was using a home made 6m dipole.

yeah.. lots of things that are now in the sort of "ISM band" range used to be low power down in the 50Mhz range (e.g. kids walkie talkies @ 49.??MHz, or cordless phones at 43-50MHz)

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