[amsat-bb] Solar panel inverters--radio noise?

[GEO Badger]

Yes, some brands can be noisy. It's illegal and if the FCC is alerted, they will follow up.
HF is where they are particularly noisy. I have one big inverter about 50' from my KT-34XA when it is cranked down. Then I have a couple of installations across the street but I don't know what inverters they are using. I haven't gone out with my ICF-2001 or IC-R3 to try to pinpoint some of the noise. That beam has a lot of gain and I hear noise from quite a distance. And I live on a ridge top.
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    On Sunday, February 10, 2019, 4:12:43 PM PST, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:  
 
 I think I have heard somewhere that solar panel inverters can be horribly
noisy.  I think that maybe I heard that the micro inverters are the worst.
Does anyone have experience?  What bands are worst hit?  Any particular
inverter brand/type good or bad? How far from the inverter is your
shack/antenna?

Thanks and 73,

Burns Fisher WB1FJ
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