[TowerTalk] serious noise problem

[larryjspammenot@teleport.com]

I had a neighbor who had a noisy doorbell transformer that caused lots of noise on the lower HF bands. It was probably hooked to the doorbell wires and the doorbell, with nice long leads that made a wonderful QRN-radiating antenna. Maybe the same at your house?
LJ


-----Original Message-----
>From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com>
>Sent: Jan 26, 2010 3:37 PM
>To: "'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] serious noise problem
>
>Dimmer switch by chance?  Smoke detector?  Like someone else said use a
>portable radio and see if you can find the source.
>
>
>CC Packet Cluster W0MU-1
>W0MU.NET or  67.40.148.194
>
>"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
>never get over." Ben Franklin 
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "anthony" <k2vi at cox.net>
>To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:34 PM
>Subject: [TowerTalk] serious noise problem
>
>
>> Im sorry...A bit off topic but im at my wits end. Im getting heavy buzzing
>
>> noise in the broadcast band which is now unlistenable. I tried unplugging 
>> everything but still noise. It only dissapears when i switch the family 
>> room 20AMP breaker off at the main pannel. It totally dissapears. I 
>> unplugged everthing in every room. What the heck can it be??? Could it 
>> possibly be the breaker itself? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im 
>> lost on this one.
>>
>> tony k2vi
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>TowerTalk mailing list
>TowerTalk at contesting.com
>http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk