Hello from NB. Recently a neighbour moved in so now my 2ac. lot has an electric fence nearby-ish. Up until now it hasn't been too bad. I am surrounded by hay fields and woods. Recently I noticed the
Forgot to say the pulses are a pretty "clean" (if I can use that term) tick-tick-tick spaced at about a 2-2½ second interval. Not all spikes are at S9on 80/160m...sometimes they vary down to s1-s2, t
Thanks Dale ! Good advice. I think even though I can hear a bit now, I am going to wait and see what it's like when it (the new part of the fence) gets really close to me. Maybe I'll luck out in that
One further question. The QRM pulses have got louder but I can't confirm whether the new section of fencing adjacent to my land is on line or not. I think perhaps it's an intermediate section but not
Hi Ken and all , Great comments, All I know at this point is most of the 3-4 part fencing is very new. The original section 1000' away I don't think I ever heard, or if I did, it was really weak. He'
Hi Gang ! Small update on the issue. I visited the neighbour today to have a casual chat. I am trying to make this important, but not "end of the world" in talks with him. (even though the QRM is pre
Hi Roger, Just a wild guess...perhaps 1000' or a titch better. Not a huge fence. It's been QRV about a year and I never remember hearing it as the paddock was very small and not much for weeds around
HI Don, Yes, its a solar powered unit with a 6v battery. Hes recently added a nice big 3rd ground plate (2 rods + 1 plate) but no real difference. I just saw it for the first time a couple hours ago.
Hi Ken, I am taking this step by step and yes, the owner is working with me, but I have to first convince him I know what I am talking about. WE've never encountered each other before, so we have no
Walk the fence on a dark night and many of the arcs will be visible - not all, but quite a few. 73, Ward N0AX Thanks for the Tip Ward !! I just might do that, ya know ! Mike VE9AA dit dit Mike, Coree
Today I walked the fence (well, most of it..the internal divide in 1 spot was not accessible as there were 4 big Clydesdales there and nobody home at the house) I trimmed 9 or 10 tree branches hard u
So, small update. Seems like when it rains or is extremely foggu/humid outside the noise goes down.sometimes way down.(mostly overnight)..(solar charged battery dying?) I am unable to convince the ne
1.8MHz to 144MHz.....lower you go, the worse it is. 6m is moderately worse than 10m or 15m, but that's only because I have a 6el yagi on that band,. On 160m the pulses are on average 10/s9.....on 20m
Frank, W3LPL gave me an idea....I don't have an aircraft radio or FT-817, nor is one available to me locally. I don't have a handheld dish and ultrasonic RX either. (I like the KB4T email that just c
Further to my last, I just backed the car up about 10' from the fence, nearest to my property and do not hear it on 2m or 70cm just using the vert's on the car. I BARELY hear it on the car's built in
Not too much to report other than the owner had a local with a tractor bush hog the fields lately which did touch on SOME of the weeds. Did the noise reduce much? No, not really. If I had to guess, I
Frank, OK, very interesting. I guess I had forgotten that feature of very long and/or travelling wave antennas. Thanks for educating me. There goes that (troubleshooting) theory then shucks ! In any
Karin, Good work ! I have lots I could say (I tend to be long winded) but I will just point this one thing out that helped me IMMENSLY one time in one particular case of RFI. We had a nearby lightnin
Hi Gary, I was an apprentice electrician in a past life. We often mounted the bare doorbell transformer on an L-16 type connector right on the side of the electrical panel, or off the side of a nearb
Hey All, Back last summer I reported on a sudden Electric fence QRN that went from almost nothing (in fact, so weak most times I wasn?t even sure it was a fence) to loud when the fence was expanded u