After reading 0n4ww article about Mr Murphy I thought I would recount my
bout with the miserable fellow.This all started aprox 8 1/2 years ago and
with
a 10 year hiatus from the hobby other than working the major expeditions on
the higher bands...the low freq bands were low priority...About 2 years ago I
got bit by the low band dxing bug again and was surprised to hear to my
dismay a loud buzzing noise which was very freq specific 1.800-1.830 not a
peep
below and above very quiet.i had thought for sure my neighbor next door was
deliberately qrming me.he is a engineer type and very jealous because of tower
restrictions ....so the tale goes I had tried everything....till last Friday I
was working on a humongous antenna tuner for top band and I needed to have a
dark area to view under the chassis so I unplugged the overhead florescent
light to use a little mag light to look under the pair of roller inductors to
make sure there was no foreign debris under to arc over. I turned the mag
light off and looked up at the overhead light and saw a aurora blue light
running back and forth in the ligh.ti went and got my sangean ats505 and
dialed up
1.825 and guess what there was the noise......as I would take my hand and
touch the light fixture that was unplugged the tubes would get brighter....Mr
Murphy you really suck I found you.....well removing the light fixture that I
had thought was possessed by evil demons I found above the light the real
cause of the problem....in that 10 year hiatus I had a electrician totally
rewire
the house.when he replaced the service panel he had taken a brute force line
filter I had attached to the old service panel and installed it on a ceiling
joist and had not grounded it.....my evil transmitter has been
silenced....its a awesome feeling to take that dirty bas---- out side and smash
the hell
out of it with a sledge hammer......anybody need a couple of hundred snap on
beads 73 ray nr1r
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