Ron,
Look for some Christmas decorations that might have that time cycle.
Jim, W8KGI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Feutz" <feutz@wctc.net>
To: <Tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 4:43 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Noise
> TT'ers,
>
> I have some ugly new noise at the QTH. Starts out low and quickly builds
> to S 5-6 (RF gain up, 500 hz filter) for 10-20 seconds, and then abruptly
> stops. It seems to cycle about once a minute. The Omni 6+ NB does a
> good
> job on it, but when a strong adjacent signal starts up (within 10 Khz or
> so), I hear the guy's CW as raspy noise in my passband, and its strong
> enough to wipe out weak sigs. The occurs when the noise is strong. When
> the noise is absent, I don't hear the garf from strong adjacent sigs.
>
> Any idea on what this type of noise is? If its from a power line or
> transformer, would it cycle like that?(I'm going fox hunting with a
> portable AM radio tonight).
>
> What causes me to hear the raspy CW when the noise is there, but not when
> it isn't, and is there anything I can do about that?
>
> 73,
>
> Ron - WA9IRV
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