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Re: Topband: Local noise source identification

To: Rick ve3mm <richardstasiak@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Local noise source identification
From: N1BUG <paul@n1bug.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:28:34 -0500
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I realize this won't help but I have a similar noise. Mine is about 24 kHz wide and drifts up/down considerably more than yours. The drift seems related to outside temperature. Here's the real kicker: it goes away every year immediately upon the coming of snow cover, but does not return until mid-summer sometime. This has been happening for at least five years now. I've tracked it to a group of 4 or 5 houses on the other side of a river, about 1000 feet from (some of) my Beverages.

Sidebar: With a portable receiver I can also detect it re-radiating from my 100 foot vertical, which is 1500 feet from the source.

Good luck, and let us know if you find it.

73,
Paul N1BUG


On 11/09/2013 05:15 PM, Rick ve3mm wrote:
I am looking for suggestions to help identify a local noise that I am
experiencing on topband.

It's characteristics are;
- bandwidth approximately 15 kHz
- amplitude relatively constant
- centre frequency seems to vary in small steps over time, no real pattern.
- right now the centre frequency is 1819 kHz, it moves up and down up to 7
or 8 kHz.
- does not seem to be present during the day. At least not this afternoon.

I shut down all of the circuits in my house other than my shack and it did
not disappear.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

73

Rick ve3mm
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