Topband: The band sans noise

[Gary Smith]

Greg, 

This is the main reason why I am selling 
my house on the ocean shore front and 
relocating to a rural area where I can 
have quieter conditions. I'm taking my 
radio with me everywhere I think is worth 
a look and will put up a long random wire 
and listen with the K3s both day and night 
for several days, just to be sure it truly 
is the "right" spot.

Good luck on your antenna search. I can 
tell you the HI-Z triangular is an 
absolute asset to my RX.

73,

Gary
KA1J

> 
> Always I have wanted to permamanently run Topband, but  there is just too much QRM and RFI at BOTH my station locations. 
> 
> After a late season ice-storm took out power for much of my area last weekend, I was SHOCKED at the activity and weak signals that were now heard. Totally amazing- but also a disappointment -as it proved just  how much of our S9  hash-noise is manmade, electrically generated or supported  RFI from "inferior design" devices, bad power line connections etc. It is not 
> just atmospheric.
> 
> Are quiet magnetic loops the answer? I can't believe they will come close to providing what I heard ( or didn't hear!) , but am open to advice. Is it worth having a 160m system on standby for those opportune times when an electrical blackout gives me my bands back? I wonder.
> 
> Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect! 
> 
> But it was almost a religious experience hearing a 160 metre band full of signals over an S-0 background noise. Yes. All other bands from 70 KHz to UHF were, equally ethierial! Spectacular experi
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>  Tthanks for letting me share my awakening.! Oh, if only it were like this all the time!
> 
> Greg 
> VE3FAX
> FN04 
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