[SECC] Clicks in the loop

Hoeft, Roger V roger.hoeft at intergraph.com
Sat Dec 2 16:33:59 EST 2006


Sorry, off by an order of magnitude.  the clicks occur at about 40 - 50 / minute.  Not to matter.  It got buried in the qrn once the contest started.
 
487 x 64  = 62,912 at the turn.  No much DX last night, only PJ2 and 5B (C4AQQ).  Hopefully things will e better tonight.
 
Many more AL stations this year.
 
good luck tonight.
 
73,
 
Roger ...
KA9EKJ

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From: secc-bounces at contesting.com on behalf of K4SAV
Sent: Fri 12/1/2006 8:39 PM
To: secc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SECC] Clicks in the loop



It doesn't sound like an electric fence to me. Most electric fences
produce a pop at about a 1 second interval. If you are very close to
one, you may also be able to hear the charging mechanism.  It will sound
like a series of chirpy dashes occurring at 1 second intervals, followed
by the pop at the end of the dash. The chirpy dashes will be spaced at
about every 10 kHz, but the pop will be spread across the whole band.

I couldn't figure out Rogers description.  He said a "clicking at 40 to
50 Hz".  Something occurring at 40 to 50 Hz would be a buzz not a click.

Jerry, K4SAV

Daniel Jeswald wrote:

>I think you have figured it out.  It is very likely a electric fence
>charging system.   W1RFI at ARRL could help I think.
>
>Dan/W4NTI
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>>[Original Message]
>>From: Hoeft, Roger V <roger.hoeft at intergraph.com>
>>To: <SECC at contesting.com>
>>Date: 11/30/2006 8:33:33 PM
>>Subject: [SECC] Clicks in the loop
>>
>>Folks,
>>
>>Anyone have any notion as to what may be the source of  a clicking noise
>>   
>>
>(40 - 50hz) that is picked up by a K9AY loop? The noise is more pronounced
>on 160M than on 80M.  It's too low in the noise to be heard via the tx
>antenna, but comes through strong in all 4 directions of the loop.  I'm
>guessing it's similar to an electric fence / charging device - although
>I've never experienced one via the radio.
> 
>
>>
>>Any suggestions on how to locate and nullify the source?  Thanks es will
>>   
>>
>be looking for you on 160M this weekend.
> 
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>>
>>73,
>>
>>Roger ...
>>KA9EKJ
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