Could you get the local power company to get involved. At least to show that
it's not their equipment. They might be able to point out the source house,
then you could go from there and get the FCC involved if the homeowner didn't
cooperate.
Wishing you good luck with this. It's getting tougher to ham now days unless
we live in the country away from everything.
Dale
On 25, Dec 2011, at 11:26, Patrick Dyer wrote:
> I know how some/many frown upon using audio samples of RFI as aid to
> determining a probable source, but this is from 10-MHz, wide AM, FT-847
> (it can be heard faintly up to 50-MHz) A recently-obtained ANC-4 has
> had varied success, depending on the band.
>
> http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/ra/nx-20111225-15--z.wav
>
> peak pulse is 10-20+ over s-9 (on perhaps, at lowest, an s-7 background)
> It resembles some samples found on the Web of battery-charger RFI.
> I've heard many an electric fence but this seems "different" as ...
>
> This RFI has what I would call a "digital component" to it with tuneable
> peaks (that vary in time/freq/intensity) - I lack anything that would
> give a good spectrum-analyzer profile of those periodicities. This
> pulsing is just one of several "signatures" that this RFI has (unless
> I'm somehow dealing with overlapping multi sources here). It seems to
> favor the weekends (first noted two weeks ago). Much of the time it's
> just a raucous "buzz" that on some freq peaks the FT-847 NB is rather
> effective. Oddly, it doesn't seem to affect the mw bc band at my QTH.
>
> Last Sunday a non-pulsing mode of this was detectable on 2m and so
> RDFed with an IC-A4 (at 136 MHz) and 4-el 2-m Yagi (part of an old 11-el
> Cushcraft). That was localized to two possible residences c. 300' n.e.
> of me in a cul-de-sac (which due to winding streets is a 1-mile one-way
> trip!) Before I could pinpoint it the RG-58's PL-259 and/or BNC adapter
> failed on the system :< I explained what I was doing (and living on the
> street just behind them since 1972 - a decade or more before those
> places were built). Resident cooperation was varied, but later having
> to re-explain this all to two SAPD officers that one resident (with whom
> I'd left my name and address) had called doesn't seem a very good omen.
>
> Revisiting the area to pinpoint it with a now-fixed 2-m RDF antenna is
> further complicated in that it isn't always detectable on 2m and my
> being semi-invalid mobility wise in recent years.
>
> 73, Pat - WA5IYX
> San Antonio, TX
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