Paul
W3PLP
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> On Jan 15, 2017, at 11:18 AM, <w5prchuck@gmail.com> <w5prchuck@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> “I have a noise, what do you think it could be?” doesn’t give us much to go
> on. Can you give us more information?
>
> Does the signal level vary with frequency? No
> Does the level vary with direction? No
> How are you looking for it? With what? Yeasu ssb radio
> Surely it must be somehow localized to some area. How big? So far 2 mile
> radius and still looking
> Have you checked close to power lines? Is it louder there? No
> Have you checked close to cable tv lines? No
> Have you determined it is not in your shack? Not. Did pull mains three times
>
Signal drops off sharp below 18 MHz and above 30 mhz
>
> Chuck W5PR
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Paul Plants
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 10:03 AM
> To: Jim Thomson
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
>
> 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
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