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Re: [RFI] Guidance on finding noise?

To: Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFI] Guidance on finding noise?
From: WW3S <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:12:40 -0500
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What is the transmit antenna(s) ? Need to make sure it’s not noise reradiated 
by a vertical or inverted L 

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> On Jan 11, 2020, at 11:03 PM, Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The noise is mainly on 160. Slight to no noise on 80/40, and no detection at 
> AM VHF. 
> 
> Regards , Kenny K2KW 
> 
>> On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:16 PM, AA5CT <jwin95@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Kenny, 
>> 
>> Did you whip out your VHF and UHF beams with an AM rx
>> mode receiver once close to the suspect poles? That is the
>> only way, and it is a conclusive way, that I have found to ID 
>> noisy power poles once the HF DF loop gets you in the
>> area of the noise source.
>> 
>> de AA5CT
>> 
>> .
>> .
>> On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 9:03:04 PM CST, Kenny Silverman 
>> <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> KC4D,N3AC and N3CW went hunting with a KX3 and a DX Engineering Amplified RX 
>> loop and again didn’t find anything conclusive. Basically they said the loop 
>> performed about the same as one of the AM radios we have that’s fairly 
>> directional. 
>> 
>> We’ve been looking so many times that we’re getting frustrated.  There are a 
>> few noisy clusters, but we can’t find a specific pole or house.  Nor can we 
>> assess if the noisy areas are actually the key offender(s)
>> 
>> Do we call in the clusters we found ?  Or do we really need to pinpoint the 
>> source(s) better before we ask for crews to come out?  We’re concerned about 
>> crying wolf and/or giving a list of more than a dozen poles for the power 
>> company to look at. 
>> 
>> Regards , Kenny K2KW 
>> 
>> P.S.  the only success so far is fixing my subject line typo 🤓
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