On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 2:53 PM Al Lorona <alor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Power was shut off to my noisy urban neighborhood...radio was amazing > yesterday for six glorious hours. > ====================== Well, here's the flip side. My old qth was noisy enough, but the real eye-opener came when I toted my KX3 to Hyderabad, India a few years ago. I was teaching at the Indian School of Business and living in the faculty apartments, and I had brought the KX3 along expecting to hear a bunch of call-signs that would sound exotic to a midwestern Yank. So I strung up a wire around the walls of my living room, up near the ceiling, and laid a counterpoise out along the floor. Donning my headphones I switched it on, looking forward to an evening of entertainment as I tuned 20 CW. Zowie! What a cacophony of squeals, buzzes, crashes, honks and toots, burps, whistles and grinds. The S-meter jumped up to about S9+10 and stuck there. Nowhere on the band, it seemed, was there a slot wide enough for a signal to peep through. Finally I was able to discern a little peep half-buried beneath the layers of trash, a lonely VU2 calling CQ. I answered him, but of course to no avail. On a later night I heard a few words from a QSO between a local ham and a VR2 in Hong Kong, and that was the sum total of my ham experience while there. Where were the noises coming from? I dunno -- from everywhere, it sounded like. 73, Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
