[TowerTalk] noise profiles...

[Paul Plants]

Paul
W3PLP
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> On Jan 15, 2017, at 11:18 AM, <w5prchuck at gmail.com> <w5prchuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> “I have a noise, what do you think it could be?” doesn’t give us much to go on. Can you give us more information?
> 
> Does the signal level vary with frequency?  No
> Does the level vary with direction?  No
> How are you looking for it? With what? Yeasu ssb radio
> Surely it must be somehow localized to some area. How big? So far 2 mile radius and still looking
> Have you checked close to power lines? Is it louder there?  No
> Have you checked close to cable tv lines? No
> Have you determined it is not in your shack? Not.  Did pull mains three times
> 
Signal drops off sharp below 18 MHz and above 30 mhz
> 
> Chuck W5PR
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> 
> From: Paul Plants
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 10:03 AM
> To: Jim Thomson
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
> 
> I have a problem here Washington, Pa, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. I have a white sound noise that run from 18 MHz to 30 MHz with constant s7 noise level. I have driven around every street with in 2 miles and can't find it?
> Any ideas?
> 
> Paul
> W3PLP
> Sent from my iPad Air 2
> 
>> On Jan 14, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Jim Thomson <jim.thom at telus.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:31:22 -0500
>> From: "StellarCAT" <rxdesign at ssvecnet.com>
>> To: "jimlux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>, <towertalk at contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
>> 
>> Why would anyone spend so much more for electricity to 'save' on vegetables 
>> from an indoor garden?!
>> 
>> Seems, to me, at least likely, only one reason why it is there...
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> ##  pot sells for  $3K  a lb.   And these grow-op folks get 4 x crops per year.
>> Do the maths, huge $$ involved.   They grow pot up here by the dump truck load...
>> then  trade it lb for lb,  straight across to  the the americans...for cocaine. 
>> 
>> ##  we had cases of legal grow-ops,  fed govt  licensed to produce.... X  lbs per year, that
>> got busted for producing  20 X  per year.   Power company + cops busted a guy on the other
>> side of town here, where the pole pigs are really small, like 25 kva.   He was sucking 20 kva,
>> and as typ, they oversize the HV fuses, and also use slo-blo types.  3 pole pigs have caught fire,
>> when those things flame on, look out,  flaming oil  dropping down onto the ground. 
>> 
>> ##  a friend 6 blocks from me has a 50 kva  xfmr on the pole across the street.  It was buzzing so
>> loud you could hear it from 200’  away.  It got replaced.  Everybody on that