Topband: The band sans noise

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Rob,

I suppose I could just scrap out the gear and put more energy into my 
music. I play acoustic instruments (no electricity needed) at some 
dances and other community events along with several other musicians and 
acoustic instruments. In that role we *ARE* the QRM! <evil grin> And 
about the remaining time..I bought a big honking, zero-turn mower and 
even though I now mow the grass for three of my neighbors it takes me 
minutes instead of hours. I'll be using my remaining time for things 
that are a lot more fun. Ham radio is still in the lineup here :)

BTW..some of the DSP and SDR software (even without SDR hardware) can 
help pick the signals from between the spikes on the raucous QRM. I get 
some crap in here that looks like the Burger King's crown on the display 
with perfectly good signals in between the "ornaments". Hint - hint.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 04/20/2016 09:36 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect!
> It's a losing battle.   You can't stop the imported appliance tsunami
> that has been going on for years, or consumers buying them and
> bringing them home and using them.  You can run around and try, good
> luck with that, and invest hours and days of your ham hobby time on
> that instead of what is enjoyable with your remaining years, and maybe
> have a few successes, out of many slammed doors, but for every success
> there will be 10 more gadgets coming to a house near you and getting
> fired up.  That ship has sailed--the FCC in the U.S. has washed their
> hands pretty much, similar to their abandonment of CB enforcement.
> Small government and unfettered commerce have won and to be clear, I
> am not generally opposed to small gov't and commerce, but in this case
> hams took a hit and that's life.
>
> It pays to focus on what you CAN control, which is the stuff on your
> property, and RF coming on to your property.  Unless you are not tied
> to a job and can move (the only really effective solution) you have to
> break out the wallet and spend some doe re mi on a pair of Pixel Loop
> antennas and one of the DX Engineering phasing boxes.  If you have
> room for anything bigger and farther apart like Flags, Pennants,
> beverages and so on, you are probably already in the sticks and don't
> have as much of a problem.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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