[RFI] Intermittent Noise Floor Raising

[Jason Hissong]

Hi guys,

I recently put up a VHF system and I notice on 2M, I hear the noise 
floor raise to about S5 for about 2 seconds, and then goes away.  This 
happens every 20 seconds.  I do not hear it on HF, 6, or 70cm.  I 
originally suspected it was a nearby packet beacon (there are a couple 
hams in the neighborhood) but I watched the local packet frequencies of 
144.39 and 144.930 without seeing any correlation with a packet burst 
and the noise floor raising.

I wanted to post to the list to see if anyone had a similar situation 
like this.  The radio is a Yaesu FT857D and the antenna is a vertical 
ringo ranger for 2m (this will be replaced with a couple halo type 
antennas).

Thanks es 73.
Jason N8XE

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