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Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...

To: Jim Thomson <jim.thom@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
From: Paul Plants <w3plp@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:56:00 -0500
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I have a problem here Washington, Pa, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. I have a 
white sound noise that run from 18 MHz to 30 MHz with constant s7 noise level. 
I have driven around every street with in 2 miles and can't find it?
Any ideas?

Paul
W3PLP
Sent from my iPad Air 2

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Jim Thomson <jim.thom@telus.net> wrote:
> 
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:31:22 -0500
> From: "StellarCAT" <rxdesign@ssvecnet.com>
> To: "jimlux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
> 
> Why would anyone spend so much more for electricity to 'save' on vegetables 
> from an indoor garden?!
> 
> Seems, to me, at least likely, only one reason why it is there...
> 
> Gary
> 
> ##  pot sells for  $3K  a lb.   And these grow-op folks get 4 x crops per 
> year.
> Do the maths, huge $$ involved.   They grow pot up here by the dump truck 
> load...
> then  trade it lb for lb,  straight across to  the the americans...for 
> cocaine. 
> 
> ##  we had cases of legal grow-ops,  fed govt  licensed to produce.... X  lbs 
> per year, that
> got busted for producing  20 X  per year.   Power company + cops busted a guy 
> on the other
> side of town here, where the pole pigs are really small, like 25 kva.   He 
> was sucking 20 kva,
> and as typ, they oversize the HV fuses, and also use slo-blo types.  3 pole 
> pigs have caught fire,
> when those things flame on, look out,  flaming oil  dropping down onto the 
> ground. 
> 
> ##  a friend 6 blocks from me has a 50 kva  xfmr on the pole across the 
> street.  It was buzzing so
> loud you could hear it from 200’  away.  It got replaced.  Everybody on that 
> street uses natural gas.
> Toss in led lights, and power consumption should be minimal.   Wait til 
> everybody jumps on the
> 100%  electric car bandwagon.  Then the entire grid will be beyond maxed out. 
>   
> 
> ##  with  10 db over S9  noise  24/7  on 160m, I can see where 160m is gonna 
> be relegated
> back to the Loran days of long ago.   Huge chunks if not the entire band 
> wiped out.   A dedicated
> RX array does not work too well, when say its pointed at ZL land... and is 
> also pointed at a noise source,
> like a grow-op.   Even the devices with the  noise sense ant will only null 
> out one noise source at a time.
> If you are surrounded by multiple noise sources, then what ?   The little guy 
> on the city lot doesnt have 
> many options left, perhaps use a remote internet RX, but with latency, wont 
> work anyway. 
> 
> Jim   VE7RF   
> 
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