My suggestion would be to use a separate RX antenna. Your existing wire will be very effective at picking up all your local electrical noise.
73 Stewart G3RXQ On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:20:34 +0000, jacrux wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
