I haven't needed the ":HW" option, but the lowest setting of the NB
eliminates completely my neighbor annoying "click-click-click",
otherwise known as the electric fence. There are rare occasions when
the clicking sound has gone away, but for the most part I just leave the
NB at 1 and the only clicks I hear are from Yaecomwoods! (Just kidding!)
73,
Joe, W2RBA
Martin Ewing wrote:
Easy question: Does anyone use the Orion's NB button? When is it
useful? When is the ":HW" option needed?
Maybe I live in a blissful radio quiet zone, but my NB (1.371) seems to
be a no-op. Nothing changes, even when I put it full on: 9:HW. I could
start up my lawnmower just to give it serious impulse noise, but
normally lawnmowing and ham operation are anti-correlated around here.
What we need these days is effective atmospheric noise blanking (and
shortly BPL blanking?), but Orion's NB doesn't solve those problems.
Cheers,
Martin
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