Topband: Ticks-electric fence-noise blanker

[Bruce]

Deer/Tick control with minimum 160 meter noise at my QTH:

I have a very large Bombay species cat. An outside cat most of the day, I check him for ticks when he comes in with a very fine toothed, lice type, comb. This method has worked well, any ticks found were dropped into a container of near boiling water. (most were found in his neck area)

In an effort to reduce the deer traffic, we cut down most of the apple trees. A hedge row of red cedar trees are also visited late winter when the browse in the woods gets scarce.  This winter (2011-2012) I installed an electric fence on  4 foot high stakes to protect the area. Tried to calculate the Deer-wire contact height that included snow on the ground.  (Note-My East Beverage antenna start is close to the fence.)

Went to a Agway farm supply store and purchased a LI30 model low impedance 30 mile range controller. They say "low impedance" means it will keep on working with vegetation touching the fence line. After installation found there was enough voltage to light a florescent light bulb held close to the wire. A quick transceiver check, and the noise blanker took out all of the pulse noise. 

There was an indication of one Deer- fence collision, and they never came back. This season, the cat has been free of ticks. Hope we can keep it that way.

73
Bruce