Stus-List Ship's lights

2020-02-06 Thread Dennis C. via CnC-List
Speaking of navigation lights, when the big supertankers first came out, folks weren't used to seeing them at night. There were several incidents around Tokyo Bay where small coastal freighters thought that, because the masthead and bow lights were so far apart, the tankers were two separate

Stus-List general warning on LED lights

2020-02-06 Thread Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
Some LEDs produce large amounts of RFI well into the VHF spectrum. Interference at HF frequencies is certainly an issue, but most of us aren’t on the SSB all day and the noise is pretty obvious in SSB or AM modes. I can turn lights on and off until it goes away. Noise up into VHF is far more