Consider the possibility that what you are hearing is ethernet trash.
If you have a PC network in your apartment or your neighbors' apartments; OR
If you or anyone near you has a Cable modem or DSL modem that is connected
to a single PC or a network of PCs through an ethernet cable --
that's likely what you'll hear. 14.029 seems to be the strongest carrier at
my QTH, but there's multiple carriers and modulations evident here, spread
over a couple of megahertz.
Possible solutions:
1. Pass EACH end of EACH ethernet cable through appropriate toroids as many
turns as possible. (I'm using a Type 31 prototype as an experiment; it does
a great job with three or four turns of the CAT5 cable through it, but I had
to break off the snap-lock tab to get the connector through the toroid.)
2. Replace ethernet connections with WiFi connections. (You'll probably
still need a short ethernet cable between the modem and the Wireless Access
Point, but at least you're then down to a single ethernet cable to filter.)
3. Move.
As to #1 and #2 above: Been there, done that.
As to #3: As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Moving
wouldn't help me unless it was so many acres I could get my antennas far,
far away from my shack.
GL.
Bud, W2RU
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Brady
> Subject: 14028 to 14034 hashbirdietrash
>
> I've asked other hams about this and many, but not all have
> experienced this.
> I'm not looking for anything peculiar to my current (2nd
> floor apartment) QTH because I heard it in our home and other
> apartments. The same sounding interference is on the low end
> of 30m as well - around 10.106 to 10.108.
>
> Is this a generic sort of city dweller problem one has to put
> up with or can it be addressed?
>
> Thanks and 73,
> Frank W0ECS
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