Oops, my Saturn is 1996, not 1976.
On Friday, July 31, 2015, Don Kirk <wd8dsb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> There is some truth around car AM radios being a poor choice. I was
> experiencing S9 noise on 160 meters that turned out to be 1.07 miles away
> and my old 1976 Saturn Wagon AM radio could hear the noise over .75 miles
> away and it allowed me to get within a short distance from the source and I
> told the owners of the property to just tune to 1710 and they would easily
> hear it too. Guess what, they could not hear the interference with their
> modem car AM radio whereas the interference was blowing away my car radio
> with both cars sitting next to each other right by the arcing power pole.
>
> I suspect a lot of the newer car radios have excellent pulse noise
> reduction. My old Kenwood TS180s noise blanket kills power line noise
> too(except during contests when the band is loaded with strong signals).
>
> P.S. My Saturn turned over 250,000 miles last week, and still going
> strong including it's old AM radio that is great for power line noise
> detection.
>
> 73,
> Don (wd8dsb)
>
> On Friday, July 31, 2015, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@contesting.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','n4zr@contesting.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I couldn't agree less... I've been using my car radio to close in on
>> noisy poles for a decade and more. Tune to the top end of the AM band and
>> drive. Get close and take a portable radio from there.
>>
>> The local electric utility's RFI guy wants to do a good job, and has
>> decent equipment but doesn't know how to use it. Last time he was
>> floundering around with a receiver set around 100 MHz with a hand-held log
>> periodic that from its size probably started about 300 MHz.
>>
>> Next time I see him I'm going to urge one of Mike's RFI courses.
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>>
>> On 7/30/2015 3:21 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
>>
>>> : I BARELY hear it on the car's built in AM radio.
>>>
>>> Due to the noises produced by cars, their radios are probably the most
>>> heavily suppressed in the world. Rule #1. NEVER use a car radio to
>>> try to
>>> hear or find noise.
>>>
>>> Kurt
>>>
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