Well, my recorder is battery operated, and I couldn't use dth second
idea.  I don't transmit all the time around it, but when I do especially
with the radio with MDC it acts up.  WIth others like the 800 MHz radio I
have used that send sout nothing but data including the voice it speeds
up, and may be unsteady, but the radio with the MDC is twat I am having
most of my problems from.





On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Phil Scovell wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>
> Put the tape recorder in a led line box when using it.  Just joking, of
> course, but I know the feeling.  I literally live on a busy street, I'm
> talking about a heavily travel street, and I did high speed cassette
> duplicating for years.  I also did re mastering of audio cassettes for
> customers so I was always running some recording device all day.  Plugged in
> devices sometimes help prevent RF from getting into the equipment but that
> isn't always true either.  I have discovered CB radio signals coming in on
> my audio recordings before just from them driving by my house out on the
> street.  It could be worse, I could have a ham living next door to me who
> ran 1.5 KW output on 20 meter side band, grin.  You can go to Radio Shack
> and try buying some snap on toroids, is that how you spell it?  The problem
> is with that, however, if your recorder is running on batteries and not
> plugged into the wall, they won't help either.  The next thing you could
> try, although it is a little unpractical, is tearing out all your sheet
> rock, lining the walls with foil from top to bottom, and putting new sheet
> rock back up.  I said it was unpractical.  The problem today is, rarely is
> electronic equipment shielded enough to stop even the weakest of signals
> from getting through.  Man, there is so much RF in the air, it is a miracle
> we all aren't, at the worst, dead, and at the least, sterile.  It sounds
> like your only remedy is to keep the recorder away from the equipment when
> transmitting.  Shoot, years ago, my HF rig used to shift frequency a little
> whenever I transmitted 10 watts on two meters so I couldn't work CW on hf
> while talking on two meters or my CW signal sounded like teletype.  Well,
> just about anyhow.  You've likely heard they are trying to scare us into
> believing that cell phones, being so close to our heads, will cause brain
> tumors, and this, even after a ten year study in Europe using over 400,000
> cell phone users proved otherwise.  Man, I can remember when they said
> microwaves, when they first came out, caused blindness, heart attacks,
> cancer, and just about everything else in the world.  The latest cell phone
> scare is that some states want to pass a law that you cannot use your cell
> phone at a gas station because, they say, your Mickey mouse low powered cell
> phone might cause a fire and explosion.  No fooling.
>
> Phil.
> k0nx
>