[RFI] Electric Fence pulsing (will get worse soon !)

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Well...my 2010 Outback and 2014 Acura TL both hear powerline noise 
fine.  Clearly there's variation by manufacturer, but it's easy enough 
to test - just drive down the road alongside a power line.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 7/31/2015 8:45 PM, Don Kirk wrote:
> Oops, my Saturn is 1996, not 1976.
>
> On Friday, July 31, 2015, Don Kirk <wd8dsb at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wd8dsb at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Pete,
>
>     There is some truth around car AM radios being a poor choice.  I
>     was experiencing S9 noise on 160 meters that turned out to be 1.07
>     miles away and my old 1976 Saturn Wagon AM radio could hear the
>     noise over .75 miles away and it allowed me to get within a short
>     distance from the source and I told the owners of the property to
>     just tune to 1710 and they would easily hear it too.  Guess what,
>     they could not hear the interference with their modem car AM radio
>     whereas the interference was blowing away my car radio with both
>     cars sitting next to each other right by the arcing power pole.
>
>     I suspect a lot of the newer car radios have excellent pulse noise
>     reduction.  My old Kenwood TS180s noise blanket kills power line
>     noise too(except during contests when the band is loaded with
>     strong signals).
>
>     P.S.  My Saturn turned over 250,000 miles last week, and still
>     going strong including it's old AM radio that is great for power
>     line noise detection.
>
>     73,
>     Don (wd8dsb)
>
>     On Friday, July 31, 2015, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com
>     <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','n4zr at contesting.com');>> wrote:
>
>         I couldn't agree less... I've been using my car radio to close
>         in on noisy poles for a decade and more.  Tune to the top end
>         of the AM band and drive.  Get close and take a portable radio
>         from there.
>
>         The local electric utility's RFI guy wants to do a good job,
>         and has decent equipment but doesn't know how to use it. Last
>         time he was floundering around with a receiver set around 100
>         MHz with a hand-held log periodic that from its size probably
>         started about 300 MHz.
>
>         Next time I see him I'm going to urge one of Mike's RFI courses.
>
>         73, Pete N4ZR
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>         "retail" DX cluster.
>
>         On 7/30/2015 3:21 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
>
>             : I BARELY hear it on the car's built in AM radio.
>
>             Due to the noises produced by cars, their radios are
>             probably the most
>             heavily suppressed  in the world.  Rule #1.  NEVER use a
>             car radio to try to
>             hear or find noise.
>
>             Kurt
>
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