[RFI] Guidance on finding noise?

[Kenny Silverman]

Hi Frank,  I knew the answer but had to ask anyway. 

KC4D’s son lives to the SE of him so he is putting up a EU beverage for the 160 CW contest - he walked the land with an AM radio and it appeared quieter. But somehow we still need to find the noise in time. 

Regards , Kenny K2KW 

> On Jan 12, 2020, at 12:53 AM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Kenny,
> 
> RFI on 160 and not on any higher frequencies isn't a typical characteristic
> of power line RFI.
> 
> I woudn't recommend giving anyone a list of a dozen poles...
> 
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
> 
> From: "Kenny Silverman" <kenny.k2kw at gmail.com>
> To: jwin95 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "RFI" <rfi at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 4:03:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [RFI] Guidance on finding noise?
> 
> The noise is mainly on 160. Slight to no noise on 80/40, and no detection at AM VHF. 
> 
> Regards , Kenny K2KW 
> 
> > On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:16 PM, AA5CT <jwin95 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Kenny, 
> > 
> > Did you whip out your VHF and UHF beams with an AM rx
> > mode receiver once close to the suspect poles? That is the
> > only way, and it is a conclusive way, that I have found to ID 
> > noisy power poles once the HF DF loop gets you in the
> > area of the noise source.
> > 
> > de AA5CT
> > 
> > .
> > .
> > On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 9:03:04 PM CST, Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > KC4D,N3AC and N3CW went hunting with a KX3 and a DX Engineering Amplified RX loop and again didn’t find anything conclusive. Basically they said the loop performed about the same as one of the AM radios we have that’s fairly directional. 
> > 
> > We’ve been looking so many times that we’re getting frustrated.  There are a few noisy clusters, but we can’t find a specific pole or house.  Nor can we assess if the noisy areas are actually the key offender(s)
> > 
> > Do we call in the clusters we found ?  Or do we really need to pinpoint the source(s) better before we ask for crews to come out?  We’re concerned about crying wolf and/or giving a list of more than a dozen poles for the power company to look at. 
> > 
> > Regards , Kenny K2KW 
> > 
> > P.S.  the only success so far is fixing my subject line typo 🤓
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