[SCCC] Effectiveness of MFJ-1026 Noise Filter??

Mark Schoonover mark at ka6wke.net
Wed Apr 3 10:59:50 EDT 2019


Steve,

What I do is not have my headphones over my ears I have them just above my
ears. I can still hear pretty good and when a strong signal shows up it
doesn't blow my ears out.


73! Mark KA6WKE

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 07:42 Steve <k0xp at k0xp.com> wrote:

> At 10:38 PM 4/2/2019, Mark Schoonover wrote:
> >Before assuming it's something with you neighbors or power line
> >noise check your own QTH too.
>
> In this case... around 9 am or so, when the neighbor's wife is home,
> my noise shows up and stays on until she goes out, usually later in
> the early afternoon. It's rarely there when just her husband is home.
> (And no, I'm not a pervert, watching all my neighbor's wives,
> etc.  hi hi). When the noise goes away, I can shortly expect her to
> leave the house as she has apparently turned off the offending
> appliance. Similarly, the noise is gone when both she and hubby go
> out for dinner (or whatever people do when they go out between around
> 5 pm and 9 pm) but soon appears when they get home shortly after 9,
> then stays on until they go to bed or fall asleep or whatever at
> around 1 am (or even later, some nites). (Fortunately, they
> apparently turn the offending appliance off late at night instead of
> leaving it on all night, like my ex-XYL used to do).
>
> So I deduce this noise fits the usage pattern of, most likely, some
> sort of TV, most likely onna those plasma sets. I don't have a TV
> (nor cable TV service) so I have nothing to compare against. I
> suppose it could also be a computer monitor but it seems to fit the
> pattern of a TV better, I think.
>
> >What I do is turn the volume up about 3/4 of the way and reduce the
> >RX gain to almost deaf. I use the gain control to reduce amplifying
> >noise yet have the signal "pop" out of the noise. I use the gain
> >control as my volume control.
>
> That works very well with my 991A, too... but the problem is when
> someone like W6P?, W7S?, N0R?, K0R?, etc. with multi-kWs and
> multi-elements drops in on the frequency and starts ragchewing the
> same DX I'm trying to pull outta the noise: then my ears get blasted.
> It's almost like using an old HRO receiver without the AVC for
> Sweepstakes... your ears will ring for days afterward and everyone
> will have to yell at you and repeat everything a few times.
>
> 73,
> SteveH K0XP
>
>


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