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Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...

To: Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
From: Paul Plants <w3plp@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:49:37 -0500
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Paul
W3PLP
Sent from my iPad Air 2

> On Jan 15, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it the same radio you use in the shack?  Could it be a bad diode in the
> rig? No.
> 
> 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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