[RFI] Bad QRN on HF

[K1TTT]

Sounds like thunderstorms to me... tis the season.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Roode [mailto:dana.roode at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 02:49
> To: rfi
> Cc: Dana Roode
> Subject: [RFI] Bad QRN on HF
> 
> 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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