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Re: Topband: E51D on 160 Tonight

To: "Roger Parsons" <ve3zi@yahoo.com>, "Roger Parsons via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: E51D on 160 Tonight
From: "GEORGE WALLNER" <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:55:48 -0400
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Roger and Top-Banders,
Will start on TB at 0930 tonight. Note that I got local inverter-type noise that I have not been able to track down. Its center wanders between 1820 and 1830, so I may be on 1810.5 or 1823.5 or 1832.5 or even higher. The radios are on a very small island (motu) with a long sand-spit. The TB/80 m antenna is at the end of the sand-spit, with salt-water all around, I have put chokes on the coax and the tuner control cables, and enough ferrites to sink the island, but I can't seem to be able to get rid of the noise.

Although we are in one of the most remote places on Earth, there is a solar farm at the village about a mile to the south. Maybe that's the source of the noise, and the price of progress...
GL and 73,
George




On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Roger Parsons via Topband  wrote:
Very grateful for your efforts, George. Would appreciate it if you could manage 
to get on 160m earlier than 1100 - my sunrise is at 10.40!
Incidentally, you were a huge signal on 80m at that time today.

73 Roger
VE3ZI
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