[RFI] A note from Sangean about switching power supplies

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 8 Jan 2017 at 14:00, Frank N. Haas KB4T wrote:

> We already are fighting that battle. That ship sailed years ago.

HA!

My favorite Elmer, Woody Davey, W7CJB, told me once that the overall background 
baseline noise level had risen very, very noticably and destructively since he was first 
licensed in the 1930s, and he put it down to REA activity. All of it was 60Hz related at that 
time.

And he was no dummy: he was chief of maintenance for the electronic section of the FAA, 
and designed and implemented in Montana and adjacent states possibly the finest set of 
mountain top airways beacons which have ever existed, all of which is gone now.

I have felt for a long time that perhaps....PERHAPS...our present terrible band conditions 
aren't "band conditions" so much as horrendous masking by the present horrible noise level. 
Its like boiling the frog: the noise level has risen so slowly and so steadily over so long a 
time that most of us have NO IDEA, not even a remote CLUE, just exactly how bad it really 
is.

I hate it.

I dream (yeah, I know, "Dream on, Stupid") of the day that there is a, major, MAJOR power 
failure across the entire world and we can, even for a short time, hear what band conditions 
REALLY sound like!

Ken W7EKB

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