Greg,
This is the main reason why I am selling
my house on the ocean shore front and
relocating to a rural area where I can
have quieter conditions. I'm taking my
radio with me everywhere I think is worth
a look and will put up a long random wire
and listen with the K3s both day and night
for several days, just to be sure it truly
is the "right" spot.
Good luck on your antenna search. I can
tell you the HI-Z triangular is an
absolute asset to my RX.
73,
Gary
KA1J
>
> Always I have wanted to permamanently run Topband, but there is just too
> much QRM and RFI at BOTH my station locations.
>
> After a late season ice-storm took out power for much of my area last
> weekend, I was SHOCKED at the activity and weak signals that were now heard.
> Totally amazing- but also a disappointment -as it proved just how much of
> our S9 hash-noise is manmade, electrically generated or supported RFI from
> "inferior design" devices, bad power line connections etc. It is not
> just atmospheric.
>
> Are quiet magnetic loops the answer? I can't believe they will come close to
> providing what I heard ( or didn't hear!) , but am open to advice. Is it
> worth having a 160m system on standby for those opportune times when an
> electrical blackout gives me my bands back? I wonder.
>
> Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect!
>
> But it was almost a religious experience hearing a 160 metre band full of
> signals over an S-0 background noise. Yes. All other bands from 70 KHz to UHF
> were, equally ethierial! Spectacular experi
> Z
>
>
>
> Tthanks for letting me share my awakening.! Oh, if only it were like this
> all the time!
>
> Greg
> VE3FAX
> FN04
>
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