Ridiculous Amounts of Interference From Neighbors LED Lights.

[Amperex]

The FCC stopped enforcing noise from electronic devices over 30 years ago. The whole US is trashed by switching power supplies. S3 is now S7 if lucky and normally S9. Your only option is the MFJ-1026

 

[Amperex]

Noise is not likely thru the power wires. It is in the air with a watt or so. And, length of the LED string makes a good transmit antenna. Electric company cannot do anything about it.

 

[gcook]

The FCC stopped enforcing noise from electronic devices over 30 years ago. The whole US is trashed by switching power supplies. S3 is now S7 if lucky and normally S9. Your only option is the MFJ-1026

Who's talking about the FCC (and enforcement)?
This is an effort to find the source of the noise (know what you're dealing with). That should always be the first step when receiving interference. Using the shotgun method to combat a problem doesn't teach us anything, and can get very expensive if you miss. The lesson that comes from solving a problem with logical thinking, is always more valuable than solving one with luck.

 

[brandon7861]

If you had a carlson superprobe (or maybe even a handheld receiver) with a shielded H-field probe on it, you could go down their breaker panel and quickly pinpoint the circuits making noise. Same probe works on the cords at the outlets too. The nice thing about using an H-field probe is that there has to be current flow and you need to have the probe close and oriented right. A 1" shielded H-field probe will not pick it up through the air at any significant distance.

Voltages can exist on any conductive surface, whereas currents only flow in complete circuits. If you find the offending noise with an H-field probe, there's no more guessing, you are on the circuit causing that noise. I used to try to do this with E-field probes, didn't work so well.

Once you find the offending devices, you got two choices (if a case of beer doesn't do it). Buy them something less noisy for that application, or, put that H-Field probe on a tiny SA and see what frequency ferrites you need to order and clamp them on as close to the noise source as you can. Good chance there are multiple offenders at different frequencies.

 

[Recon]

Hi everyone, I know that I can't be the only person that's had to deal with this issue. But I haven't been able to find a way to fix the problem without picking up and moving to a new house.

Everyday I get between 8 - 9 pounds of static noise on my radio. But it stops every night between 11 - 12 . Then it drops down to about 4 pounds of static. At first it was about 7 pounds of noise, but it's recently gotten worse . I can't even hardly hear most of the locals through the noise because it's so bad. I've lived at this location for 21 years, and it didn't use to be that bad until about 2 years ago when some new people bought a house just a few houses up the street from me. When they bought the place , they had the inside gutted down to the beams, and redid all of the electrical inside and outside. Now it's all LED lighting, along with whatever else has been done to the place.

Does anyone here have any ideas as to what I can do to get rid of the interference that their electrical setup is causing in my radios ? Because this isn't just effecting my CB, I'm Ham operator too, and it's tearing up the 10 meter band on me too.

Any help would be appreciated ... Thanks

A few years ago, I had (sort of) the same issue at a certain time of day and night. I asked my neighbor what he had going on in his cellar because I noticed lights were on. He had LED light bars for his pepper plants, and he had them before I moved in. I did not have any issues / noise the first year I was on the radio. He was given a new LED light bar from his friend (another pepper rower) and that is when the noise started. By process of elimination, he disconnected one light bar at a time and sure enough, it was the new light bar causing the noise. Bad / cheap / junk ballast.

 

[whiteastro]

A few years ago, I had (sort of) the same issue at a certain time of day and night. I asked my neighbor what he had going on in his cellar because I noticed lights were on. He had LED light bars for his pepper plants, and he had them before I moved in. I did not have any issues / noise the first year I was on the radio. He was given a new LED light bar from his friend (another pepper rower) and that is when the noise started. By process of elimination, he disconnected one light bar at a time and sure enough, it was the new light bar causing the noise. Bad / cheap / junk ballast.

Hey I was thinking about you a few days ago ! Where you been hiding ? LOL