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Forum: Marine Electronics

10-08-2018, 12:59

Replies: 82

Sticky: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

Views: 195,777

Posted By Paul Elliott

Re: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

It was a PLB, manual activation only. I had it inside my PFD (I'm going to call it a lifejacket to avoid TLAO -- Three Letter Acronym Overload), and had apparently leaned too hard on it and had...

Forum: Marine Electronics

09-08-2018, 13:26

Replies: 82

Sticky: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

Views: 195,777

Posted By Paul Elliott

Re: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

It's quite likely that proper ferrite clamp/chokes on the cables will improve the situation. With power cables you will want to run the positive and negative leads through the same choke core if you...

Forum: Marine Electronics

09-08-2018, 11:50

Replies: 82

Sticky: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

Views: 195,777

Posted By Paul Elliott

Re: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

That gilded cage will also protect the canaries from RFI.

A different problem, but I once had a PLB trigger itself, and got a satphone call from the USCG at 4:00AM (they called my wife at home and...

Forum: Marine Electronics

08-08-2018, 23:50

Replies: 82

Sticky: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

Views: 195,777

Posted By Paul Elliott

Re: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

I'd say it's almost certain that a foil shield will work, as long as the seams are rolled tightly. Any sort of good Faraday cage should block a very large percentage of the RFI. It needs to be a...

Forum: Marine Electronics

08-08-2018, 16:28

Replies: 82

Sticky: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

Views: 195,777

Posted By Paul Elliott

Re: HF-SSB Radio, Proper Installation Tips/Techniques, etc.

It certainly could be caused by radiated RFI. Even with a perfect ground, you are still in the near-field of a backstay antenna, and there's not much you can do about that.

Can you try a...

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