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Re: [RFI] Guidance on finding noise?

To: Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFI] Guidance on finding noise?
From: AA5CT via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
Reply-to: jwin95@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:33:10 +0000 (UTC)
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 Kenny,


I have gone after and found many 'sources' on 160, and the
last step involved resolving to the an actual specific power
pole using VHF and UHF. I have not had one case yet where
the pole was a noise maker on 160 and was quiet on VHF
and UHF. 


Case example:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9oDjNyZ0L8


UHF beam (forgive the wind' sometimes one has to track
these things down in adverse conditions):


https://youtu.be/VzvFf0MoLi8



de AA5CT
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     On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 10:03:03 PM CST, Kenny Silverman 
<kenny.k2kw@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 The noise is mainly on 160. Slight to no noise on 80/40, and no detection at 
AM VHF. 

Regards , Kenny K2KW 

On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:16 PM, AA5CT <jwin95@yahoo.com> wrote:



 Kenny, 

Did you whip out your VHF and UHF beams with an AM rx
mode receiver once close to the suspect poles? That is the
only way, and it is a conclusive way, that I have found to ID 
noisy power poles once the HF DF loop gets you in the
area of the noise source.

de AA5CT

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.     On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 9:03:04 PM CST, Kenny Silverman 
<kenny.k2kw@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 KC4D,N3AC and N3CW went hunting with a KX3 and a DX Engineering Amplified RX 
loop and again didn’t find anything conclusive. Basically they said the loop 
performed about the same as one of the AM radios we have that’s fairly 
directional. 

We’ve been looking so many times that we’re getting frustrated.  There are a 
few noisy clusters, but we can’t find a specific pole or house.  Nor can we 
assess if the noisy areas are actually the key offender(s)

Do we call in the clusters we found ?  Or do we really need to pinpoint the 
source(s) better before we ask for crews to come out?  We’re concerned about 
crying wolf and/or giving a list of more than a dozen poles for the power 
company to look at. 

Regards , Kenny K2KW 

P.S.  the only success so far is fixing my subject line typo 🤓  
  
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