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Ham Radio Interference from next door neighboor

My next door neighboor has a ham radio with big power amp, ever time he talk on the radio, his voice is all over my phone, tv and my two channels system ( http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vdone&1081564573&view )I change all my phone to 2.4 GHz digital cordless phone and the RFI Interference is gone, I change my tv to HDTV and Interference is also gone, I try everything on my my two channels tube system, (power cord rfi filter, power conditioner, Dedicated AC with good ground) it will not do a think, his voice is still all over my Carver Al-III when he talk. Is there a way to filter out the ham radio RFI??? Please Help.

My two channel System:
Shanling CD-T100C CD Player
Audio Experience SYMPHONIES Tube preamp
Rogue M-120 Tube amp
Rogue M-120 Tube amp
Carver Al-III Plus Speaker
Carver AL-III Plus Speaker
MIT AVt 2 Interconnect
AudioQuest AQ TYPE 6 Speaker cable
Adcom ACE-515 AC filter

Thanks
Alan
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Hi Wizard454

I found two "TVI" filter (PDC-1089) and (Workman FT-311) at
http://premiere-electronics.net/low_pass_filters.shtml they are both low pass filter, can you tell me which one to buy for my next door neighboor, I spoke with him, he stated he will try it.

Thank for all your help

Alan
avguygeorge
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Dear Top vd; In most all things in life; It isn't what you ask but how you ask. My hat's off to both of you.
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Thanks Avguygeorge, great help from all of you. I will post again after Mike (My Ham Radio Neighboor) put in the TVI Filter.

Cheers
Alan
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I try the TVI Filter, it don't work. Try move around his antenna, it also don't work. However he is getting married and moving to Fair Oaks, California (with his toys). I suppost my Ham Radio Interference is also gone forever :-) I just hope his new neighboor is not a Audiophile :-(

Anyway, thanks for all your help.

Alan
edesilva
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Make sure he takes his antenna w/him when he goes... You don't want your new neighbor to pick up the hobby due to the convenience of an antenna already in situ.

I used to live close to the DC beltway and occasionally picked up tranmissions from truckers who presumably had hotwired illegal power amps to their radio rigs (I believe they call them seat warmers). Since it was intermittent, it was hard to say if it got fixed, but I think using: (i) covers on coax inputs to the pre and (ii) short shielded interconnects helped considerably.

What was the Dilbert quote... er... "Very few problems cannot be solved with the selective use of high explosives." Something like that. ;)
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