Topband: WIDEBAND NOISE

[BILL MCHUGH]

Far-fetched as it may sound, the source of the noise may be very
local...like a piece of consumer equipment.  About 6 weeks ago, noise was
wiping out a number of local services in the VHF (150 mhz) range as well as
doing a very nasty job on a couple of lowband systems and AM broadcast band.
The problem was traced to a bad FAX MACHINE!  What was generating the noise
I do not know-perhaps a switching power supply.  With the offending machine
uplugged, the noise disappeared on all the systems. It was 3 miles away from
several of the customers being interfered with, and Industry-Canada
technicians spent no small amount of time locating the source.

I gather from talking to the I/C technicians that there are a lot of
incidents like this, so the source of much of our noise on the low bands as
well as elsewhere may have very humble origins!

Bill, VE3NH


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