- 1. Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: kd6nrp@earthlink.net
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:29:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
- Good Morning: My QTH is in a suburban neighborhood surrounded by other houses. Manmade noise sources in the area are producing a receive noise floor of S-9 across the entire 160m band. Does anyone ha
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- 2. Re: Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac@arrl.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:16:04 -0400
- One device at a time. I'm presently in the middle of an exercise to minimize my own noise floor. In the last couple months, I've identified nearly a dozen internal sources. Here's a partial list fro
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- 3. Re: Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Harmon <k6uj@pacbell.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:50:35 -0700
- Hi Brian, I feel your pain! Top band is a tough one for noise. I also live in a California suburban neighborhood. Our power lines are not underground like a lot of the newer areas and have been prett
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- 4. Re: Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:36:49 +1200
- Move to the country :-) Use another band :-) Use a remote receiver in a better QTH :-) If none of those are an option, there are some practical things you can do such as systematically hunt down and
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- 5. Re: Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: W2PM <w2pm@aol.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:19:34 -0400
- There are many good ideas including placing compact receive antennas like a pennant or flag on the fringe of your property away from as much man made sources as possible. However once near instant tr
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- 6. Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: "Bruce" <k1fz@myfairpoint.net>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 01:39:38 -0800
- Pete, Glad you are getting good results from your short BOG. I am receiving 160 and 80 meters with a experimental 122 foot BOG. With this length and my ground conditions it self terminates above 4.5
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