"John Brown" wrote in message
om...
It appears our remodel in our single-family home will have a number of
fluorescent light fixtures.

Does anyone out there have these in your home and experience any noise
that bothers your 160-10 m operation?

Should a new installation and new bulbs produce very little noise?

I would like to hear any experiences, including any work-arounds.

Regards,
Ted, K6KIM

I guess it may depend to some extent on the quality and type of
fixtures/bulbs
that you install.

My shack is in a finished "walk-out" basement (the house is dug into
the slope at the top of the hill, such that from the front it appears to
be a 1-story structure, but from the back side, it's 2-story).

The entire basement area, ham shack, electronics lab, office, family room,
woodshop, etc. is VERY well illuminated by an array of fixtures set in the
grid of a suspended ceiling. Area is about 2000 sq. ft. and there are 14
4 ft., 4-tube fixtures.

I have checked and I can't see a noticable change in RX noise in the HF
bands between all lights off and all lights on.

If you get a tube that's starting to go, or a bad ballast, that could cause
a dramatic change ... something that bodes in favor of replacing bad
tubes.

(Of course, my antennas are outside, away from the lighting, and the
house is covered with aluminum siding for low maintenance, which
may help to contain any noise from the lighting ... YMMV, depending
on such shielding, antenna placement relative to the lighting, etc.)

73,
Carl - wk3c