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Re: [RFI] Peculiar Noise

To: Michael Martin <mike@rfiservices.com>
Subject: Re: [RFI] Peculiar Noise
From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:41:35 -0700
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I am suspicious of the copper mine. They run a SXEW plant 2 miles away.
Given that it's owned by a huge, multinational corporation, the odds of
getting anything done about it are near zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvent_extraction_and_electrowinning

73,
Steve, N2IC

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 12:37 PM Michael Martin <mike@rfiservices.com>
wrote:

> 6 M noises pretty simple to find. A very small and cheap directional TV
> antenna or work fairly well connected to a small 6 M portable. And go
> walking or driving. Knowing what it is will do you know good, you'll still
> have to know the location of it.
>
> Michael Martin
> RFI Services
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>
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> On Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 2:34 PM Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone care to make a guess at this ?
>>
>> https://www.kkn.net/~n2ic/n2ic_noise.mp4
>>
>> I have flipped the main breaker and turned off all UPS's in the house.
>> Peaks SW, which is towards a neighborhood over a mile away, and a large
>> copper mine, 2 miles away. There is also a line of 14.4 kV power lines in
>> that direction.
>>
>> It will be on for several hours at a time, then disappear. Nothing else
>> like it between 40 and 60 MHz. I would never have noticed it, except it
>> sometimes parks itself on 50313, the 6 meter FT8 frequency.
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve, N2IC
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