On 10/18/2015 Jim Brown wrote:
> On Sun,10/18/2015 8:51 AM, Charlie Gallo wrote:
>> Any ideas how to proceed from here?
> Some questions to help you think about it.
> As you tune around a band, especially the lower bands, are there peaks
> of noise, with a center that sound like a growly tone? If yes, this
> noise is not power-system related, its an electronic source. And, of
> course, you could have both kinds of sources. Many of us do.
Tuning around is how I found the secondary source (along with the P3
waterfall) - the rest is broad band - basically flat, no peaks,
demising as you go up the bands - less on 28Mhz than say 160m (with
big antennas) - with the hand held - max on 40m, flat across the band
> A great way to figure this out is to look with a spectrum display,
> especially one with a waterfall. Electronic sources will show bumps of
> noise, spaced 10-20 kHz across a band, and if they drift, they're
> switching power supplies. If they don't, they're running on some sort of
> clock, usually associated with a microprocessor. They will show up as
> straight vertical lines on a waterfall, wiggly if they're a switcher.
> Power line noise is impulse noise, and will show up as horizontal lines
> on the waterfall.
> Listening with the 660, how far have you walked? More than a block or
> two? Have you tried driving around listening between stations for the
> noise on an AM radio?
Walked about 8 blocks, drove with stops around a mile, seems to center
around the area of the pole 2 blocks from W2IRT's house - that
general area is the ONLY place I could hear it on 10m
> If you never heard it on the Aircraft band, you were probably not close
> enough to the source. In other words, it could be a lot farther away.
> The reason that an AM VHF RX is so useful is that the noise at these
> higher frequencies doesn't travel far on the power system wiring, but is
> radiated by wiring close to the source.
OK - but the fun was I could only hear it on 10m in the general area
of that pair of poles, got more than 1/2 block away, NOT audible on
10m, but never was able to hear it on Aircraft - which is why I was
wondering
> 73, Jim K9YC
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