[TenTec] Noise

[Jim Miller WB5OXQ]

If it just started recently, it may be
christmas lights on someone's house nearby that flash
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Feutz" <feutz at wctc.net>
To: <Tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:43 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
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