Howdy & Merry Christmas! Let’s get to it…
1) new to HF
2) new IC-7300
3) fanned dipole in attic (all I can do at the moment)
I think I have a mischievous RFI poltergeist, that seems to appear mostly on 20m.
Weird things happen when I transmit in that band (maybe other bands too):
1) I can hear myself coming through a set of headphones on my bench that are plugged into a small headphone amp but the volume is turned all the way down.
2) a “smart” WiFi-enabled outlet strip in my shack turns on/off random outlets.
3) the somewhat new washing machine (they don’t make ‘EM like they used to!) gets confused…stops running, flashes an error code, needs to be unplugged and plugged back in to get working again. Only seems to do this when I’m in the next room transmitting. I know this because my wife regularly interrupts my QSO’s asking for help with the device.
Watched this presentation and learned a lot:
https://youtu.be/LSL1h6MJbaIDo y’all think some well-placed ferrite on both my radio power cabling and the washing machine power cord will exorcise these demons, or is my haunting something indicative of a larger problem?