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KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« on: December 31, 2018, 1725 UTC »
I decided my wife's stand mixer needed to issue it's own QSL card.

The KitchenAid Pro series 7 quart stand mixers (and probably some of their others) have a variable speed motor, which produces a prodigious amount of RFI/QRM.

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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2018, 1839 UTC »
This is great of course, but I'm wondering what the difference is between your mixer and mine? I have an older Pro 6 model (not to be confused with the Professional 600, which came later) and I get no RFI from it at all.
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2018, 2156 UTC »
7 quart? What are you pureeing, weenardogs?
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2019, 1608 UTC »
But can you modulate it?
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2019, 1830 UTC »
Will this make it into the next Andy Yoder Pirate Annual?  ;D
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2019, 1844 UTC »


Don't be surprised if some of those government boys bust into your home at 3am, confiscate said mixer, and hand you a 6 figure bill.  You are probably disrupting some for-profit dark side of the moon programming.  ;)!
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2019, 2246 UTC »
The KitchenAid Pro series 7 quart stand mixers (and probably some of their others) have a variable speed motor, which produces a prodigious amount of RFI/QRM.

One word: ferrites.
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2019, 1825 UTC »
Mixer Radio International?
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2019, 1832 UTC »
The KitchenAid Pro series 7 quart stand mixers (and probably some of their others) have a variable speed motor, which produces a prodigious amount of RFI/QRM.

One word: ferrites.

Yep, tried that, my usual first line of defense. No luck.  I understand KAID will be on the air later this afternoon, in fact. The upside is it will be making low carb chocolate mousse.
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2019, 1950 UTC »
When ferrets won't do, it's time to open the case and get jiggy like wil smif suggested in that video with some .01 ceramics rated a few kv. Or perhaps add one of those ac line filters you can plug a ac cord into?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JcmQONgXJM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_filter


Then you'll have more woos, ah ahs, uhs, and yos than wil smif.





wooo

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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2019, 2026 UTC »
Mixer Radio International?

Ohhhh. Very good.
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2019, 2028 UTC »
I understand KAID will be on the air later this afternoon, in fact. The upside is it will be making low carb chocolate mousse.

I'd suggest that you narc on them to the Feds but you know...that government shutdown thing you folks are having would prevent immediate relief.  :D
« Last Edit: January 05, 2019, 2035 UTC by KaySeeks »
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Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2019, 2029 UTC »
get jiggy like wil smif suggested in that video with some .01 ceramics rated a few kv.

Yeah, like right on the motor leads.

Alternatively, you could put your entire kitchen into a Faraday cage.
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