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Topband: RFI - Lots of it

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Subject: Topband: RFI - Lots of it
From: Jim Murray via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Jim Murray <adkmurray@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:13:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Greetings,Last Fall we moved into a new location.  This Summer I spent a lot of 
time and effort putting up an Inverted L and radial system.  Now after tuning, 
etc. completed I have what appears to be power line noise, source unknown at 
this time.  I threw the main in our home and noise still remained.  The closer 
I get to the power lines or the antenna system the louder it gets.  As I jump 
in freq., the higher the band the less noise.  I have a portable receiver that 
is capable of rx on the ham bands.  As it sits right now 160 is just about out 
of the question.  Rig is a ft1000mp mk5 field and the NB does do a good on the 
noise but also on the weak signals.  This is the first location in 35 years 
that I've run into this.  I don't have much faith at this point in the power 
company finding the source but will call them this week.  Any ideas would be 
greatly appreciated and also wondering about Noise Phasing with MFJ-1025.  I 
read w8ji article on it but not sure if it would help on noise of this 
magnitude.Regards,jim/k2hn
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