Received the following from the guys at BY1QH...73 de Greg-N4CC
>Greg/Ron ... Thanks for the info. You can tell all that on 160 we have a
>noise
>level of S8 to S9. Have tried other antennas for receive with no
>success,
>also have tried the QRN smasher and not one bit of help. If it is power
>line
>noise it is every where and no chance to null it out .
> 80 meters has all kind of signals at the low end up to 20
>over.
>Sounds like 3513 may work for transmit, listening up 2 at 3515. May hae
>to
>change the QSX freq as birdies and other beacons come and go.
>On 160 the reason for changing qsx is there are birdies that come and go
>
>on the band and we have to adjust to miss them. Sure sorry that we
>cannot
>hear more of the guys calling but there is no sign of them at all. The
>other
>morning I could hear about 3 or 4 at the noise level and just could not
>pull
>them out. Sure thought we heard a NA0Y in there but you know how the
>noise starts to sound like signals. Most likely will not send the whole
>log
>unless we work a ton of guys on low bands, will just send who we worked
>on 80 and 160 as we go.
> We are qrv right now on 80 meters 3513 and will listen up
>2 but listen for changes. Will spend today on 80 if conditions are
>decent
>if 160 is great have some tell us so and we can qsy.
> Hope you are home yet Greg and we can snag you this am
>on 80. Will do a overnighter for europe in the next couple days and
>will
>let Ron know when and he can put it out.
> Cold and windy but 80 antenna is up. 73 Merv
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