Contact ARRL Mike Gruber <mgruber@arrl.org> and explain the situation.
<http://www.arrl.org/the-lab-staff>
Maybe he can give you some advice. I believe he coordinates with the
FCC on some RFI matters.
Dealing with neighbors, especially renter neighbors, can be a sticky
problem. You may have better luck contacting the landlord.
Sounds like a switching ps or light dimmer. Some of the light dimmers
can be horrible radiators of RFI.
Good luck
Dale, k9vuj
On 15, Aug 2010, at 21:19, Kelly Johnson wrote:
> It took me two weeks, but I'm now about 99% certain that I found the
> source of my horrible RFI problem. It's a house about 100 yards from
> me. A group of questionable renters just moved into that house a few
> weeks ago. The noise is worse than anything I have ever heard. It's
> S9/S9+ on 40m through 10m; dropping down to S7 or so on 6m (all while
> I beam that direction, which is unfortunately the direction I must
> beam for the East Coast from here in CA). I can null it out if I beam
> perpendicular to that direction, but unfortunately, there aren't that
> many stations of interest directly north or south of me :-(
>
> When I told the renter today that I have heard the noise start at 8am
> the last 2 days, his first response was: "there's a guy here that has
> a very, powerful computer that he turns on at 8am". He asked the guy
> to turn it off to see if it was the source and the guy clamed to have
> done it, but I don't believe he did. I think he was just trying to
> get rid of me. The noise was still there. When I asked the guy if he
> would be willing to shut everything off to see if it went away he said
> no. I don't know what to do now. My HF station is nearly worthless
> at this point with S9+ noise. I can't hear much of anything above the
> hash. My S meter read S0 last night at 10:30pm and still S0 this
> morning from 6am until 8am. I was sitting in front of the radio at
> 8am when the noise came on. The S meter instantly jumped from S0 to
> about S7. It slowly got worse until it peaked at S8 on CW in a CW
> 250HZ bandwidth and S9+ in a 2KHz bandwidth on SSB.
>
> Any advice (other than move, wait for these guys to move, or
> something illegal)?
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