Hi,
One thing you might try if you can locate them is to get some
ferrite rods from an electronics place and wind your speaker wires
around the rod. Sometimes this can help. Also, try winding the
power cords around ferrite rods.
I haven't gottten any of these things for a long while, but as I
remember, the rods which are probably less than a foot long are
something like 3 dollars a piece.
I've tried them in similar situations and they did help and in some
cases even eliminated the problem entirely.
Don W6SMB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard French" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: RFI problem.
> Thanks, looks like a set of headphones for me.
> The pipes in this house is all copper, and the house has it's own
> ground
> rod. I grounded to the cold water pipe until I can get a ground
> rod put in
> for my shack.
> thanks for your help, and 73
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>
>
>> From my experience, some computer speakers, you're not going to
>> fix it.
>> The
>> amplification in those is so cheap and garbage and unfiltered or
>> anything,
>> it's just something you'll have to deal with more than likely.
>> Grounding
>> to
>> a cold water pipe may not help either though as most often if you
>> do it
>> after the meter, supposedly the meter can isolate you from that
>> actually
>> grounding though I don't always trust that, but worse than that,
>> a lot of
>> times either the electrical can be grounded there which should
>> make RFI
>> issues worse and when I was new and starting out, my water pipes
>> acted as
>> part of the antenna when I did that. It never showed up on the
>> SWR or
>> anything, but it caused a lot more RFI than it was supposed to
>> fix and my
>> electrical is grounded separate from the water pipe because I
>> have a well
>> and most of the line from the well to the tank in the cellar is
>> PVC anyway
>> though I didn't know that at the time.
>> Short version is though, half the hams I know, myself included go
>> through
>> computer speakers in some way, shape or form and there's really
>> nothing
>> most
>> of us can do about it, a lot of us around here have tried
>> everything there
>> is to tru and nothing helped short of just turning them off and
>> using a
>> set
>> of headphones in my case. The sighted hams just shut them off and
>> leave it
>> that way.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard French" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:26 AM
>> Subject: RFI problem.
>>
>>
>>> Hi list.
>>> I grounded all my equipment to a cold water pipe, but I still
>>> come across
>>> my
>>> computer speakers.
>>> It's the only thing in the house I ever had RFI problems with.
>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks in advance, and 73.
>
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