Good story and good work.
Mike Martin
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David Cole <dave@nk7z.net> wrote:
>Wow... You get a free prostate exam for life!!! :)
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>On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 16:45 -0400, K8TB wrote:
>> I have to drop in my story, which was solved 2 weeks ago.
>>
>> On our local repeater, a fellow ham who works at the large local
>> hospital, was concerned as one of the doctors there was being charged
>> with interference to a CB'er. I contacted the doctor, and cool part was
>> that he very much knew the difference between amateur radio and cb'ers.
>> I then contacted the CB'er.
>>
>> He was not easy to deal with. Somewhat belligerent. I also did not trust
>> any of his "troubleshooting". He was adamant that the doctors house was
>> causing the problem. The noise the CB'er was being bothered with came on
>> around 9:15 PM, and lasted for 12 hours. I found this when I visited him
>> with a ham buddy. I drew on all my knowledge of Law n Order to ask the
>> questions properly.
>>
>> It was 9 PM, so he then drove his SUV with his CB rig (on Channel 37),
>> to the power pole in front of the doctors house. The CB'es antenna/tower
>> is about 500 feet away. Right at 9:22PM, his mobile CB rig went from S2
>> (he had two preamps in series in his mobile!) to S9. I had my FT-817
>> dialed into 27.375 (Channel 37), and my National DF loop. My noise went
>> up to an S2. But, I immediately could tell that the signal was not
>> coming from this area. Every 100 feet, I could tell I was closer. The
>> noise was a very broad band AC buzz. I ended up around 500 feet away
>> from the doctors power pole, and then I could not get a null, as I had
>> all kinds of secondary power lines overhead. The noise was now S9 ++
>>
>> I went back to my car, dug out my Arrow 3 element 2 meter beam, and my
>> VK3YNG sniffer. From my car, I walked back to my last spot, and as I
>> walked, the noise, on 2 meters, very sharpley pointed to one house. The
>> home owner was working on a car just outside his garage. I called to him
>> from the sidewalk. My ham radio buddy joined. I explained that we were
>> looking for electronic noise in the neighborhood. He told me, "Ya,
>> something bothering a lot of stuff in my house!". Holding teh
>> sniffer/beam to his power meter caused the sniffer to go to 60 Db
>> attenuation. I told him that to the best of our ability, the noise was
>> coming from his house. I then told him that the noise was on for 12
>> hiours and off for 12 hours. He then told me that he had grow lights on
>> a 12 hour time, but they were not due to come on until 10 PM. I asked if
>> we could tun off the timer. He said, no wait here. He went downstairs,
>> and the noise was gone in 30 seconds. He came back, and could not
>> apologize enough. He had checked several of his electronic devices and
>> the noise was gone. He never made the connection.
>>
>> We offered to have a look see at the ballast, and he said, "No!". Now,
>> could he be growing pot? Not necessarily. Many people don't want
>> strangers in their house. I understand that.
>>
>> The CB'er? Because he was parked by the doctors power pole when the
>> timer kicked in, it had to be the doctor. If he had just backed up 500
>> feet, he would have learned more. Reminds me of so many mistakes
>> beginning DF'ers make. The CB'er also told us "He wanted words with this
>> neighbor". We told him no.
>>
>> My ham buddy knew the neighbor with the bad ballast from a work
>> situation, and politely asked to come back in one week to verify the
>> noise was gone. The neighbor was very wiling for that. That neighbor was
>> insistent that the bad ballast would be gone. I felt he was embarrassed.
>>
>> The doctor was very very happy. No, he did not offer a free exam for our
>> work!
>>
>> But years of monitoring this forum helped me in troubleshooting this.
>> Thank you to all for the hints from the past.
>>
>> Tom Bosscher K8TB
>>
>>
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