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In Reply to: RE: My oldest brother posted by E-Stat on August 12, 2016 at 05:56:03
One time this lady was taking a bath and this story was in a 1956 QST magazine that I have an old collection of..Anyway her neighbor was a ham and this was in Bismark North Dakota..He was coming thru the pipes and this was an older home where lead and or copper pipes were the norm.The pipes became a tuned oscillator and it was picking up his signal on the six meter AM band and the lady flipped out..You would only hear it when there was water in the tub and you were in the tub.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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I'm waiting for the headline about the ham with a mobile KW who keys down next to a self-driving vehicle.
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living in Connecticut working for Westinghouse..He came over in his brand new Buick Century wagon with the wonderful 3800 V6 but everytime he would key up his 2M/440 Icom transceiver at the light,his car would stall.It didn't do it as much on the 5 watt setting but on the 10 watt and 50 watt setting,it would do it religiously.We went into the Buick dealership and being the car was in warranty,I had them change out the ECM. Unlike Ford and Chrysler,GM computers were exposed where you could change the Eprom.Keep in mind this was the old OBD 1 system.
It appeared to cure the problem for two days,but then it was back stalling again on high power.After checking parasitic draw and voltage at the battery when the Icom was keyed on high power,I decided to do a Hail Mary.I pulled the ECM out of the car and wrapped it in 10 layers of aluminum foil because the crystal in the ECM,was triggering a command to disengage spark.Once I put the thing back together,there was never another issue.The foil shielded RF in the 146mhz range which is where the problem was happening..Long story short,the dealer said it would not void the warranty so Dale was happy about that.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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