Hello,
I don't know if its any better, but I did another recording of my 20
meter easterly noise with the gain down and AGC on:
http://roodes.com/k6nr/20m-AM-AGC.wav
The recording is done off my sound card on the PC at the remote
station which is connected to the line output of the K3. I don't use
the sound card for operating except for RTTY, I have the K3 speaker
going to a phone line for CW and SSB. The mic gain on the sound card
was all the way up during the previous recording.
The noise was on today by 330pm. I'll have to keep some notes but
seems to me it comes on slowly starting in the afternoon and is worse
during the evening. I don't know when it goes off, but its not a
problem around 8 or 9 am.
The noise has a sputtering component that I hear best on 20m when the
antenna is pointed east. The sputtering component blends into the
noise and is not as noticeable when I turn the antenna somewhat north
or south. I may have more than one noise.
The noise is not as prominent on 15m, and I can't really hear the
sputtering at all on 10. The noise is very bad on 40m and 80m as
well.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check some stuff out next time I'm
out there. I have driven around listening on 6m and 2m AM when the
20m noise is on, I don't think I've ever heard it mobile except on
20m.
Dana
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Dana Roode <dana.roode@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone, I will spend some more time on this tonight and do a
> fresh recording. It is almost always windy at the remote QTH,
> although yesterday much less so than normal. I dont think this is
> thunderstorms, as I have heard the noise most nights for a year or
> more. Im going from memory, so I need to keep some records.
>
> Dana
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Dana Roode <dana.roode@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Don't know where to begin - I have several bad sources of QRN at my
>> remote desert location, the worse one seems to come on from the East
>> starting in the late afternoon. Makes 20M down pretty unusable. I
>> tried a recording if anyone wants to listen for immediate thoughts:
>>
>> http://roodes.com/k6nr/20m-7PM-AM-NOAGC.wav
>>
>> Sputtering, arcing, mess - I dont know if its from the power lines or
>> the neighbors. We are on 2.5 acre lots so the neighbors are not real
>> close. I recorded in AM, no AGC, if there is a better way to do this
>> let me know, unfortunately its easy to get additional samples.
>>
>> Does anyone know of an individual in Southern California that could
>> help me sort out my various noise problems? Southern California
>> Edison has been out multiple times trying to resolve a different noise
>> (from the NorthWest). Each time the inspector finds what he thinks is
>> the cause, then I wait 3-6 months for a crew to come out, they fix
>> what the inspector found, but my noise remains. It doesnt help that I
>> live 80 miles from my station either.
>>
>> Dana
>>
>
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