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Re: [CQ-Contest] Noise Blanker recommendations

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Noise Blanker recommendations
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:52:20 -0700
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On 10/22/2017 7:27 PM, John Geiger wrote:
At one time I thought I had localized it to a house
about 4 houses to the west of me, but the house is now unoccupied, but the
noise is still there.

On 10/23/2017 2:47 AM, WW3S wrote:

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 noise blankers are likely to be ineffective, because it's not impulse noise.

This search for a better noise blanker may be misguided. The solution to most noise issues is to kill it at the source.

FWIW -- the best noise reduction I have ever heard (and it is amazingly good) is in NR0V's control software for ANAN radios. Warren is the inventor/developer of the Pure Signal algorithm. I visited his QTH (only a few miles from mine) a year or two ago and he demonstrated it to me.  Warren's software might work on your noise.

73, Jim K9YC
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