Topband: MY INTERFERENCE PROBLEM

[ON4WW_pandora]

Glad you found it, Bill.

For those interested, here is a small video on how a faulty streetlight 
sounds and looks (near on4un's station).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZX_eJeQLUc

73 - Mark - on4ww.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo at isp.ca>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 2:58 PM
Subject: Topband: MY INTERFERENCE PROBLEM


> Thanks to all who responded to  my request for help on the intermittent
> noise problem.  Many suggested a bad streetlight, and that appears to be 
> the
> cause.
>
> I went out at dusk the other evening and located FIVE streetlights doing
> exactly the same thing: four sodium lights in the nearby village and one
> mercury vapour within 1/2 km of my home.  While they are on, a particular
> light produces no noise when parked underneath, but when off and 
> attempting
> to turn on noise appears.  The problem is-with five bad lights all within 
> a
> couple of km there is almost always noise until daylight comes and the 
> light
> sensors kick in, turning off power to the ballasts.  Suddenly the band 
> goes
> deathly quiet!
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> 73, Bill VE3CSK/VE3NH
>
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