Always I have wanted to permamanently run Topband, but there is just too much
QRM and RFI at BOTH my station locations.
After a late season ice-storm took out power for much of my area last weekend,
I was SHOCKED at the activity and weak signals that were now heard. Totally
amazing- but also a disappointment -as it proved just how much of our S9
hash-noise is manmade, electrically generated or supported RFI from "inferior
design" devices, bad power line connections etc. It is not
just atmospheric.
Are quiet magnetic loops the answer? I can't believe they will come close to
providing what I heard ( or didn't hear!) , but am open to advice. Is it worth
having a 160m system on standby for those opportune times when an electrical
blackout gives me my bands back? I wonder.
Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect!
But it was almost a religious experience hearing a 160 metre band full of
signals over an S-0 background noise. Yes. All other bands from 70 KHz to UHF
were, equally ethierial! Spectacular experi
Z
Tthanks for letting me share my awakening.! Oh, if only it were like this all
the time!
Greg
VE3FAX
FN04
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