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[RFI] More on 160 M RFI - significance of hum bands

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Subject: [RFI] More on 160 M RFI - significance of hum bands
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:29:29 -0400
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I'm having more trouble than I expected localizing my power-line interference. In particular, one component of the interference varies from almost negligible to whopping big, as visualized on HDSDR, and often appears in wide bands 22 KHz apart.. See the Dropbox link <https://www.dropbox.com/s/qaxt7qnyl51hnp3/hum%20bars.png?dl=0> for a visual. You can see the hum every 120 Hz on the audio display - when I move the AM passband away from the hum bands, the 120-Hx multiplesessentially disappear. The bands themself vary, without apparent pattern, from very strong - as seen in the illustration- to invisblle/inaudible. Just now, they stuttered a few times and then disappeared from the waterfall (and the audio) entirely, in the course of a few seconds. With the AM passband in one of the hum bands, the base noise level is about S9; without them, it is S7, which still isn't great, but worst things first.

Really puzzling - any advice on what I'm seeing and how to track it down will be much appreciated.


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