[TenTec] Noise

[Tommy]

Don't forget its Christmas time. I would look out the windows and 
see if you can observe some neighbors new Christmas lights in sync 
with that noise!

Tom - W4BQF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Feutz" <feutz at wctc.net>
To: <Tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Noise


> TT'ers,
>
> I have some ugly new noise at the QTH.  Starts out low and quickly 
> builds to S 5-6 (RF gain up, 500 hz filter) for 10-20 seconds, and 
> then abruptly stops.  It seems to cycle about once a minute.   The 
> Omni 6+ NB does a good job on it, but when a strong adjacent 
> signal starts up (within 10 Khz or so), I hear the guy's CW as 
> raspy noise in my passband, and its strong enough to wipe out 
> weak sigs.  The occurs when the noise is strong.  When the noise 
> is absent, I don't hear the garf from strong adjacent sigs.
>
> Any idea on what  this type of noise is?  If its from a power line 
> or transformer, would it cycle like that?(I'm going fox hunting 
> with a portable AM radio tonight).
>
> What causes me to hear the raspy CW when the noise is there, but 
> not when it isn't, and is there anything I can do about that?
>
> 73,
>
> Ron - WA9IRV
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec