Ironically, I have discovered that my front yard (street facing) is significantly quieter than my back yard -- that said, my NW Flag literally butts up against the NE corner of the house.... so. (We have no above ground utilities on our street which is something of a blessing obviously!)
Wellbrook antennas strung up in street side 70' spruce trees as doing way better -- currently figuring out how to get a NW flag into the front yard with the "business" end most isolated from surrounding "buzz-warts..." It seems that we all spend as much energy fighting noise sources as we do listening - Thankfully the worst offender in the neighbourhood is a solar array that puts out crap every few hundred khz from 14 Mhz through into VHF. I have had e-mail back and forth with the "engineer" that builds and deploys these DC to AC conversion systems and insists that there are no "RF components..." in his system..... uhm... anything that converts DC to AC or vice versa utilizes a potential "RF" component or side effect if not well designed. On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:30 AM Patrick Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > I have the same issue here. A really wonderful area to DX the Pacific has > really been downgraded with a lot of noise. I think most is man made noise > in houses. It used to be I could fight the power line noise as Pacific > Power would come out and repair the issues, but with so many devices in > homes, the noise is a lot worse than it used to be. I spend a lot of time > either DXing FM or stream radio/tv from all over. Add in a wifi radio. > > > Patrick > > > -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
