RINTINTIN wrote:
....Dave, Iv got one of santas little helpers living next door to me ..her sitting room is very festive all year round even in summer ..
His missus has about 4 sets of faiery lights on day and night and the wallwarts cause me some constenation ..one does not know where to start nowadays when it comes to sorting interference out and tracking it down ..its rife.. etc. etc.
Aye they do exist these days, I have a couple, retired, live next door, at one time it was just Christmas they went overboard with fairy lights and festive illuminations everywhere.
These days it 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year!
There is a well known country song in country fans circles that sums them up a treat by Gretchen Wilson, called "Redneck Woman", just change that to "Redneck Couple" and it really applies to them a treat!
It contains these very pertinent lines at one point......
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And I keep my Christmas lights on....
On my front porch all year long.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wObGeQO6Cj0Only in their case its not just the front porch, its the entire bloody back garden as well, that at night looks like the damn Blackpool Illuminations!
Unfortunately that's how their one time of the year Christmas decorative lights extravaganza, which "eh ho" was only the festive season, reasonably short and just once a year, has now morphed into just lately!
The real piss take, they run on timers/dusk to dawn sensors 24/7 and 52 weeks of the year, and they even leave them running during the times when they are often away for days on end in their bloody caravan!
So at those times they are not even damn well here to enjoy them, the only person getting any "benefit" in the way of EMC none compatible broadcast shit and totally unnecessary RF noise is me!
And yes I have had words, and for while they even started turning them off when not needed, that didn't last very long, and to be honest I have just given up, and these days stick to VHF and upwards that suffers far less noise from their "pretty lights" back garden crap!