I was making a rather serious (given my small antennas) effort today in the Illinois QSO Party and had to deal with this intermittent noise I have here for pretty much the entire contest. It is a ras
Doesn't mean anything, if that house still has power, it could be a motion sensor light or dusk to dawn type..... Right. Any sort of device with a switching power supply will create noise, AND most n
The culprit is alternating current, which has a pesky habit of generating Hertzian waves all over the place. Solution? Buy a couple hundred acres in Idaho or Montana, etc., and run everything on dire
John, I have monster noise here near Bangkok and have tried several things. -ICOM IC-775dsp is jaw dropping good on radiated high voltage lines (it was made during the Russian woodpecker era), but ca
And don't discount that empty house. As long as there is power, there can be noise sources. Doorbell transformers used to be a frequent problem but anymore there are many switching supplies in applia
Just throwing this out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXo4hYKqIVM FlexRadio Wideband Noise Blanker (WNB). Yes, this video is real. Best is to eliminate the noise source, but beyond that, SDR