You can always tell the poster that lives out in the middle of nowhere... :)
I have a standing invite for anyone travelling through the area who has never experienced what it is like to operate HF in the big city to come spend a few hours in my station in the middle of Los Angeles... Tim AE6lx On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM Bob McGraw via Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone given thoughts or efforts to finding and addressing the > source of the noise? All of these electronic concepts are great, but > would not finding, reducing or eliminating the source be more > effective. I seem to think so from my personal experience of tracking > down noise and resolving same. > > Start with the radio on a battery as the power source. Then drop the > mains power. Note the noise level. Then restore mains power and > observe the noise. That my friends is coming from your house. This > should be easy to find and correct. Power distribution systems noise > are more challenging to find and correct. But with a bit of cooperation > from the power company that can be accomplished as well. > > From my experience and work, my noise level on most all bands, 160M - > 6M, is S-2 to S-3, excluding atmospheric noise of distant lightning. > Winter will correct that. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] -- Owner, worldwidedx.com AE6LX, Amateur Radio ______________________________________________________________ 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]
