Topband: N5J Live Stream?

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Wes,
We are using EU22i generators, which are the newer version of the EU2000. 
You can only hear their noise in a quite place, Also, we are running three 
of them paralleled and their noise adds up because they are synchronized. 
Anyway, using a bunch of chokes and additional grounding, we got the noise 
on 160 m down to an acceptable level. Also, we now have a well situated DHDL 
RX antenna that is pointed towards NA . Last night had no problem copying 
NA.

TKS for all the suggestions.
GL and 73,
George


On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Wes Stewart  wrote:
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>        George,
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>I'm not being critical, just curious, I don't have a lot of experience, but I've used my EU2000 for a couple of Field Days and from a lot of RV sites and have never even tried to ground the thing.  I park it 50-75 feet away, run an extension cord to the equipment and have at it. Of course I've never been on a quiet island but I've not had issue.
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>Also, you've done this before from Samoa and other places (200K QSOs I believe) have you not seen this before?  What is different this time?
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>Wes  N7WS
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>                                                        On Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 12:03:21 PM MST, GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net> wrote:                    
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>Jim,
>We are using all of the cores you have given me. They help, but it is hard 
>to get a good ground at the top-end of the beach where the sand is very dry 
>and rocks prevent rods getting driven deep enough to reach moist ground. 
>Yesterday, a bit desperate, ran a 70 foot long GND wire to water, but I 
>doubt it is doing much good. We got chokes on most coax and control cables 
>but without good GND their effect is limited.
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>Using a single #31 2" core, how many turns of RG-6 do you think will give 
>decent choking effect? (I know, it depends on the GND and other loading 
>factors.)
>TKS for all the ferrite cores! Will let you know if we need more!
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>GW
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>On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:48:34 -0700 Jim Brown  wrote:
>>Hi George,
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>>Remind me where to send you more cores for your next trip. :)
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>>In the meantime, try grounding the generator chassis (and/or grounding pin) to a driven rod (or to screen/radials if you can't drive a rod). I've seen reports that this can be effective with some generators on some bands.
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>>73, Jim K9YC
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>>>Set up a DHDL RX antenna yesterday but it was picking up generator noise. Will move it today to reduce noise.
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