[SECC] Clicks in the loop

[K4SAV]

.."Sorry, off by an order of magnitude.  the clicks occur at about 40 - 
50 / minute."...

Now THAT sounds like an electric fence.  Time to take a walk around the 
neighborhood.  Take a portable radio with you. It could be as far away 
as a mile if the fence is really bad, but likely it is much closer that 
that.

I heard you on 160 last night, and I could tell you were having hearing 
problems. Maybe there is a source of some extra QRN close to you other 
than the usual atmospheric QRN. I wasn't having any problem hearing the 
stations you were working but I did just finish up my 4 element EWE 
array and I was using that. That should give me some advantage. You put 
in a good signal at my place, 60 over S9.

Jerry, K4SAV

Hoeft, Roger V wrote:

> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> >>[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.
> > 
> >
> >>
> >>73,
> >>
> >>Roger ...
> >>KA9EKJ
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