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Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...

Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
From: Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:48:11 -0600
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Is it the same radio you use in the shack?  Could it be a bad diode in the
rig?

Chuck W5PR

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Paul Plants <w3plp@verizon.net> wrote:

>
>
> Paul
> W3PLP
> Sent from my iPad Air 2
>
> > On Jan 15, 2017, at 11:18 AM, <w5prchuck@gmail.com> <w5prchuck@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > “I have a noise, what do you think it could be?” doesn’t give us much to
> go on. Can you give us more information?
> >
> > Does the signal level vary with frequency?  No
> > Does the level vary with direction?  No
> > How are you looking for it? With what? Yeasu ssb radio
> > Surely it must be somehow localized to some area. How big? So far 2 mile
> radius and still looking
> > Have you checked close to power lines? Is it louder there?  No
> > Have you checked close to cable tv lines? No
> > Have you determined it is not in your shack? Not.  Did pull mains three
> times
> >
> Signal drops off sharp below 18 MHz and above 30 mhz
> >
> > Chuck W5PR
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >
> > From: Paul Plants
> > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 10:03 AM
> > To: Jim Thomson
> > Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
> >
> > I have a problem here Washington, Pa, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. I
> have a white sound noise that run from 18 MHz to 30 MHz with constant s7
> noise level. I have driven around every street with in 2 miles and can't
> find it?
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Paul
> > W3PLP
> > Sent from my iPad Air 2
> >
> >> On Jan 14, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Jim Thomson <jim.thom@telus.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:31:22 -0500
> >> From: "StellarCAT" <rxdesign@ssvecnet.com>
> >> To: "jimlux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
> >>
> >> Why would anyone spend so much more for electricity to 'save' on
> vegetables
> >> from an indoor garden?!
> >>
> >> Seems, to me, at least likely, only one reason why it is there...
> >>
> >> Gary
> >>
> >> ##  pot sells for  $3K  a lb.   And these grow-op folks get 4 x crops
> per year.
> >> Do the maths, huge $$ involved.   They grow pot up here by the dump
> truck load...
> >> then  trade it lb for lb,  straight across to  the the americans...for
> cocaine.
> >>
> >> ##  we had cases of legal grow-ops,  fed govt  licensed to produce....
> X  lbs per year, that
> >> got busted for producing  20 X  per year.   Power company + cops busted
> a guy on the other
> >> side of town here, where the pole pigs are really small, like 25 kva.
>  He was sucking 20 kva,
> >> and as typ, they oversize the HV fuses, and also use slo-blo types.  3
> pole pigs have caught fire,
> >> when those things flame on, look out,  flaming oil  dropping down onto
> the ground.
> >>
> >> ##  a friend 6 blocks from me has a 50 kva  xfmr on the pole across the
> street.  It was buzzing so
> >> loud you could hear it from 200’  away.  It got replaced.  Everybody on
> that
>
>
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