The N0SS demo is very impressive. The noise sounds like what I have here in the city suburbs most (all) of the time. But here hitting "NB" has no tangible effect. I have not found it useful ! (OK; I probably need to read the manual and play with the settings.) On the other hand, "NR" does work well provided the wanted signal is strong enough. (Once again, read the manual, I know ...)
On 80m I have now adopted a different approach to the awful local noise levels. I found that hitting "ATT" was very effective in reducing unwanted noise, especially when listening to weaker signals, including VP6DX over 8000 miles away and nothing like as loud in here as on the N0SS recordings. Today I tried listening to VP6DX on 80 with ATT set to OFF and the noise was painful. Hitting PRE made it far worse. NR did not really help, but with ATT ON, I worked them on 80m CW with just 10w .... The antenna here is a 20m wire bisquare, bottom corner about 7 feet off the ground and firing vertically upwards on 80. As the VP6 op said when I told him .... "OUCH" But the mojo sure works, because I also made it on 80 with 100w of SSB ! Again this was with ATT ON. PRE seems best left for the HF bands, 20m and up. But ATT is a powerful option when all else fails. John G3JAG K3 #107 K2 # 609 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
