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Re: Topband: Radio World; Noise Floor; Where do we go from here?

Subject: Re: Topband: Radio World; Noise Floor; Where do we go from here?
From: Art Snapper <art@nk8x.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:32:34 -0500
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It is ironic  to see AT&T's filings, since their uVerse product is
responsible for quite an increase in the noise floor on HF.

Art NK8X

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:18 AM, <daraymond@iowatelecom.net> wrote:

> Greetings topbanders. . .we’ve had discussions before on the ever
> increasing noise floor.  Looks like we’re not the only ones paying
> attention.  I live in the country well outside the Des Moines area.  In the
> past five years or so my noise floor has gone from –125 or –130 dbm to
> about –100 db (or worse) as measured at daytime on my quarter wave vertical
> with a bandwidth setting of 0.4 KHz.  It appears to be due to construction
> of a few new houses even though they are 0.5 mile or more away.  See the
> link below:
>
> http://www.radioworld.com/article/noise-floor-where-do-
> we-go-from-here/300031
>
> 73 with the compliments of the Season. . . Dave, W0FLS
>
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