How can I stop my neighbor from bleeding his Ham Radio Transmissions into my PC speakers and telephone!?

Question

Ham Radio Nuisance

Answer 1

Your equipment is supposed to be designed to reject such interference.  Contact the devices manufactures.  Is your computer properly grounded?  Is your phone?

You can add ferrite filters to both devices.  In the U.S. Radio Shack sells such items.  You wrap several turns of the speaker/phone wire around (through) the core to make a high impedance path for RF which will tend to reject the Ham signal (which your equipment is supposed to do on its own (see the FCC stickers on the bacK).

Answer 2

Find out who controls use of ham radios in your state and contact them. It is likely that the ham operator is using a signal that is too strong and this may be illegal.

Answer 3

Are you sure it's a ham radio operator?

Many others use communications other than just hams who do get into devices such as yours. More problems are heard from people with CB operators than with Ham radio as many cb rigs are more interference prone than their ham radio counterparts due to modification.

Talking to the neighbor would be one step. he may be unaware of his interference. Most ham radio operators will try and help those who have that interference.

Next would be to get whoever controls radio in the nation you are in involved. In the US, it's the FCC

But as stated by someone else, the stuff you speak of, is usually low quality and in the US is forced to take interference from licensed and regulated services if they are in compliance also

Answer 4

Your speaker wires are acting as antennas, and feeding your neighbor's radio signals "backward" into your stereo amplifier.  While it's not im-possible for your neighbor to be at fault here, chances are profoundly greater that your audio system, coupled to speaker wires which may be resonant at the ham station's frequency, is completely unable, due to lack of selectivity or low system "Q" to reject those signals.

Radio Shack and other similar shops sell ferrite cores which look liked small donuts.  Get a couple of these and wrap several turns of your speaker wire through and around the ferrite cores, at least one ferrite core per speaker.  You'll be surprised how that unwanted interference disappears.