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Compendium › Safety, interference and compliance › Interference and EMC

Interference and EMC

Who is interfering with whom, and how to fix it.

RFI and EMI overviewSources and paths of interference.Receiver overload and intermodulationWhen strong signals cause trouble.Harmonics and spurious emissionsCleaning up your transmitter.Interference to consumer electronicsYour signal in their stereo.Power-line and switching noiseTracking down noise on the band.Filters and ferrites for RFITreating the problem.Common-mode current and ground loopsThe hidden path.

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