[TowerTalk] Steppir tuning noise

[K3BU at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/04 8:09:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
smidtca at sprint.ca writes:
>>Not if you are lucky enough to have a SteppIR, but for the other beams,
sure. Two seconds of low level hash and then 1:1 VSWR, boy am I glad that I
dumped my old fashioned, fixed tuned, beam.<<


I wonder where is hash coming from. Stepping motors do not have brushes, they 
are driven by pulses, but that is VLF. Could it be static from tape moving 
inside fiberglass tubes?
Jus' wondering.

Yuri, K3BU.us