Topband: K9AY loop still not working right, everything checked out OK tho...

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In a message dated 1/12/2006 6:28:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,  flood at ixi.net 
writes:

-----  Original Message ----- 
From: "K9AY" >

> You can get some  sense of the local conditions by walking around your
> property with a  portable AM radio tuned to a fairly weak station high in
> band -- its  loopstick will couple to objects as you approach them (within 
>  a
> few feet), increasing the noise and signal levels.  >




If the problem is fundementally a very strong and very local noise source,  
which is about the norm for QTH's like this, and there is no feed system  
problems, the only option would be to use a noise nuller like the MFJ  unit.  In 
fact I can't see how any suburban 160 user can be without one.  For those 
suburban/densely populated QTH the more antenna/noise solution tools  the better but 
I'd bet the nuller will go a long way in this  situation...