Topband: Surprise! Spring Stew is here

[David Olean]

Hi Wes

That is a good idea to contact Susan Collins office. My approach is that 
our resources include land, water, air, and the electromagnetic 
spectrum. Everybody gets their undies in a knot when someone pollutes a 
stream or dumps oil on the land. Preserving the electromagnetic spectrum 
is just about the same thing.  and I am the canary in the coal mine as 
far as these grow lights go. That is the message I want to convey . 
maybe she will listen, but I doubt it.

There is a ton of 144 activity but it is all digital. I do not do much 
with it now. After my 144 tower came down last year, I am currently 
QRT.   I have a killer setup on 222 that I am running. I had a second CW 
EME contact with KL6M this past fall. I am going to stay on 222 and hope 
that we can build up some activity on the band.

Dave

On 3/12/2022 12:47 PM, Wes wrote:
> I'd be contacting Susan Collins. Probably pointless considering the 
> world situation, but marijuana growing is still a federal crime and 
> RFI is an FCC concern.
>
> On anther note, a divorce caused me to abandon 2-meter EME about a 
> year after our QSO in 1982.  Is there enough 2-meter EME activity 
> these days to justify building a station to seek my 10th band DXCC?
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
>  On 3/12/2022 8:02 AM, David Olean wrote:
>> I have to reluctantly miss the Spring Stew. All of my gear is 
>> operational, but but I have huge amounts of RFI from grow lights. One 
>> source is 0.75 miles South of me, while source #2 is 1.08 miles NE of 
>> me and in line with Europe. My noise floor has increased by 22-35 dB 
>> depending on how may grow lights are on at any given time. I can only 
>> work very strong and loud stations. IT is so frustrating knowing that 
>> all of my efforts to build an effective receiving setup has been 
>> thwarted by a number of related actions. Just listening to the 
>> cacophony of square waves is enough to give anyone a headache in just 
>> a few minutes.
>>
>> The grow lights have been a disaster for me, and, with marijuana 
>> legalized in my state, there are new sources popping up all the time.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Dave K1WHS
>>
>> On 3/12/2022 9:42 AM, Tree wrote:
>>> Starts in about 19 minutes in fact.
>>>
>>> 73 Tree N6TR
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