I had noise very similar to what you describe except mine was on 15 meters.
Its origin was a neighbor's "touch lamp."
Good luck from Mike
N4NT@chartertn.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Mauro - PeopleNet" <mauro@idt.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: [TenTec] weird noise on 10 meters
>
> On all three of my Ten Tec rigs, i occasionally gets this band-killing QRM
> across 10 meters. it comes in waves, varying from s 6 to s 9 and is
> nearly s 0 in a few places. It sounds like diathermy from the old 1960 CB
> days. It comes at night or the evening. And the NB does nothing to cut
> it, altho on my Omni 6+, if i set the NB knob at about 2 o'clok, i can
> null it.
>
> We shut off the Christmas lights, flurescents, but no luck. Then the
> noise vanishes for days. As i said, i've heard this for years on all of
> my rigs. and only on 10. Is this like some foreign country jamming, a
> local transformer going west on a utility pole, or the sun ready to
> explode? it is kinda frustrating. it nearly caused me to blow a gasket
> when i have been planning to work the 10-meter contest and coundn't on
> Friday. the noise was gone on Saturday, so i had fun on cw and phone
> working the TEST.
>
> OK, any idea what this noise on 10 is? Aliend trying to communicate or
> just annoying me???
>
> Bob Mauro, Mauro@Idt.Net Amateur Radio Station KZ2G
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