[CQ-Contest] Noise Blanker recommendations

[Jim Brown]

On 10/22/2017 7:27 PM, John Geiger wrote:
> At one time I thought I had localized it to a house
> about 4 houses to the west of me, but the house is now unoccupied, but the
> noise is still there.

On 10/23/2017 2:47 AM, WW3S wrote:

>> Doesn't mean anything, if that house still has power, it could be a 
>> motion sensor light or dusk to dawn type.....

Right. Any sort of device with a switching power supply will create 
noise, AND most noise blankers are likely to be ineffective, because 
it's not impulse noise.

This search for a better noise blanker may be misguided. The solution to 
most noise issues is to kill it at the source.

FWIW -- the best noise reduction I have ever heard (and it is amazingly 
good) is in NR0V's control software for ANAN radios. Warren is the 
inventor/developer of the Pure Signal algorithm. I visited his QTH (only 
a few miles from mine) a year or two ago and he demonstrated it to me.  
Warren's software might work on your noise.

73, Jim K9YC