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Low Pass Filter Success !!

Wire Weasel

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My station, irregardless of rig, has always bled over on the next-room TV. It's mainly proximity overload with the rooftop antenna being directly on top of the TV room.

Heh heh I've been dragging my feet for too long buying & trying a common Low Pass Filter to see if that might solve the problem. Stations & LPF's are funny creatures. Every setup is different. Stray RF flies around in funny ways and is only relatively predictable. I've used good name brand LPF's in the past and they didn't solve the problem I had at the time and with the particular setup at the time.

So I've been watching LPF's on ebay for months but think the good used ones have been selling too high and new ones were surely more than I wanted to pay. Last week I snagged what seemed to be a deal on a NOS unit and put 'er on. Got it for about $15 total. Well this one appears to be doing the job and has eliminated anything coming over the TV, even a hyper loud meter-pounding roger beep.

So if you've having any station-to-appliance bleedover, give a GOOD, (not elcheapo-directed-towards-CB'ers) LPF filter a try. It just might work on your current setup.

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I cured my tvi woes with high pass filters on the neighbors devices.

obtw not one of my tv's showed tvi issues without highpass filters.
 
Definately sounds like it was NOT frontend overload at all. BTW what is the brand of filter that you got? I would never use one unless it was Barker & Williamson (the one I use) , Drake or Bencher. The little ones designed for CB use are crap.
 
Step 1. replace the limiter

Step 2. proper alignment

Step 3 remove LPF

Step 4 Talk and enjoy clean radi:)
 
Limiter hadn't been removed on any of the rigs I've run here. Everything bleeds into the TV, even the Icom 746.
 
My IC 7000 does the same, wipes out my tv on 10 and 2 meters. you know even my 170 ht does it when in the room behind mt tv.

I thought it was a ground problem but unhooked ground and it does it less and my ht is not even part of my system.

I think it is my cheap rabbit ears.
 

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