Good Evening All, Questions and Advice sought, i will report back on results... (cross posted to qrp-l, elecraft, and kx3)
I live in a rural area, which should be very low noise. i put up a OCFD (88:44) this afternoon, and tonite wandered on to 80m to listen and check the antenna. I had 20db over noise everywhere. 40m was showing S4 noise, and I could only copy about 4 or 5 stations above the noise on 40m (yep, NR and NB both on, 400hz wide). nearest neighbor is 1/4mi away, and I'm the last one on a rural overhead power line. So, Given a KX3 and internal batteries, my first thought is to build a small multi-turn electrostatically shielded loop (1ft dia, 3-5 turn in a copper pipe, 1" gap at top) and see if I can localize any local noise sources. my office and computers are prime targets of course... Is this overkill ? Recommendations for a better small / near-field noise pickup ? Any other advice for first steps ? Anyone else chased noise sources with their KX3 ? How did it work, what antenna did you use ? Other suggestions / recommendations ? TIA, 73 Niel WA7SSA ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
