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BRNout said:
crainbebo said:
Big problem here at NIGHT is our 60w energy efficiant bulbs. They aren't GREEN for the enviroment on AM! It blocks pretty much most of 650-1050 except for strong signals, and sometimes up around 1400-1500 kHz too.

-crainbebo
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Little known fact: compact fluorescent bulbs (CFRs) aren't green for the environment at all! Each bulb contains a little bit of mercury. Break one and you have mercury in your home. Toss it into the garbage (as millions will do over time) and the mercury ends up in the landfill. Collectively, the 'greens' are creating an environmental issue where none existed before. Incandescent bulbs, on the other hand, are clean. The filament is usually tungsten, you have glass and a bit of harmless sodium. Which is why the light from CFLs have that white/blue tint (though some are adjusted with sodium to 'look' more yellow) and the incandescent bulbs have the softer yellow/white glow.

I know, this would appear to be a thread hijacking - and it's not intended as such. Just pointing out that beyond screwing up AM reception for those of us who like to dx, they will also cause other long-term impacts that nobody seems to want to think about.
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IMy power company offered to send us 6 free compace fluorescent bulbs for free. I haven't rtried them while listening to AM radio, but in the one place I was able to use them they're quite bright and look yellow. Maybe it's because the wattage is higher than what i replaced. But because of the environmental problem, and other considerations, I won't bother.

I have fluorescent tubes in my bathroom and they cause a problem briefly but it goes away most of the time.

I sure wish I knew what occasionally caused a problem with my AM reception around here. I mentioned that in the first post.
 
Good news! I don't have to recharge this one.

Bad news: the top pops off when I have cleaned it. Actually, i do that everyt imer, and I had trouble putting the thing back on but thought I had it. Then the next week I turned it on and soon the top popped off. You can't shave without the top on there. The last Remington I bought had a similar problem which was why I refused to buy from them again.
 
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