If you mean with the preamp on, yes the noise goes away. It sounds sort of like wadding up paper...not so much a whooooosh.
It's such a big jump on 10 & 12, not so much on 6. I haven't been aware of much noise since the last visit from the power company. Mike On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:24 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Mike Reublin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Question about the PR6-10. With no signal, and the preamp off, I get a >> gentle 'whoooooooosh' on 6, 10, & 12M, 1 bar on the S meter. Turning on the >> PR, on 6M I get a slight increase in the 'whoooosh'. On 10M & 12M the S >> meter goes to S7 or so and the noise level goes WAY up, sounds like 160M in >> a summer thunderstorm. >> >> Is this the expected operation? > > Sounds like you have a fairly noisy location or/and antenna, and > probably don't really need a preamp....... does the "big whooosh" go > away if you disconnect your antenna? > > 73, > > ~iain / N6ML ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
