On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> : All this speculation is a huge waste of time and is irrelevant.
>
> Not really... A bad ballast doesn't sound like an electric fence, which
> doesn't sound like loose hardware, which doesn't sound like RFI from a
> computer, which doesn't sound like noise from a switching mode power supply,
> which doesn't sound like the ECU in my truck, which doesn't sound like a
> Toyota Prius at a quarter mile, which doesn't sound like a motorcycle with
> magneto ignition three miles away, which doesn't sound like a noisy CFL in
> the shack, which doesn't sound like the galvanic ruckus from my stove when
> the flame is on, nor my watch, nor the massive hash generating cathodic
> protection systems covering our continent like a spiderweb... You get the
> idea. I don't waste my time looking for all these irrelevant things when
> the sound I hear sounds like a plasma TV or bad light bulb. Most things can
> be eliminated just by the sound.
Also, loop antennas are pretty well known. It wouldn't be hard to create
a loop tuned at a specific frequency. Use it with a receiver and you can
have a very directional null.
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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte
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