Topband: 8Q7WM Z-22 in VE6

[Jim Brown]

On 3/1/2022 10:39 AM, Renee K6FSB wrote:
> just as I was starting to get it together, I had my 160 antennas come 
> down a few years ago due to trees dying, then after beginning to put 
> things back then snow takes things down...(ok falling branches brought 
> things down, did not even get a chance to use them)

Yes, that is an ongoing problem with receive antennas and elevated 
radials. I moved here from Chicago when I was a year or two younger than 
you.

...now this pot grow
> light stuff is wreaking havoc here in rural CA.

Something here does not compute. qrz.com shows your QTH next to a 
freeway in the SF Bay Area.

I live in the mountains about 80 miles south of you, where the 
overwhelming RFI sources are switch-mode power supplies that come with 
everything that plugs into the wall, variable-speed motor controllers, 
and solar systems. And, of course, arcing from defective components on 
power lines.

..I almost ready to go to
> war....i know I will loose....so you are not the only one having ( in my 
> opinion- illicit) drug growing RFI related issues .

Pot is legal in California, and is mostly grown outdoors.

73, Jim K9YC