I have one of those legal-limit hams about 2.5 km from my house. Seems a nice enough guy, except that he uses 1.5kw for EVERYTHING. When he gets on 40m, I hear him on 2 other bands via harmonics. He splatters all over 40 so there's no reason for me to even have my rig turned on when he starts transmitting. I can't tell if it's a bad radio on his end or just front end overload on my end. It's frustrating to try to do a bit of CW and find that I can hear him almost as well on 15m as on 40 and 20. I haven't checked 10m, but my guess is I'll hear him there, too.
I talked to him about it, and he basically blamed it on my radio's insufficient rejection. It's a KX3. Is he right, or should he check his radio for unstable harmonics? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:24 AM Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > Exactly right, Vic. A dirty rig, whether generating clicks or phase > noise, is putting his trash on YOUR frequency. You are screwed by his > choice of a lousy radio. And he doesn't care. I've got a neighbor like > that. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > On 6/9/2021 12:45 AM, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP wrote: > > I live in a place where there is a ham with a legal limit rig and a big > > beam less than 1 km. away. Antennas are line of sight. His signal > > renders about 10-20 kHz of the (CW) band unusable, with lesser effects > > extending out farther. He does not have clicks; it is phase noise (or > > something like that). > > > > I have experimented with attenuators and they have NO effect on the > > apparent width of his signal. Therefore I conclude that the problem is > > not in my receiver (K3, not S, upgraded synthesizers). > > > > I don't know what kind of transceiver he is using, but I think more > > attention needs to be paid to transmitter cleanliness, rather than to > > continue the race for dynamic range. > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ard...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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
