I intend to kill that Beast! Seems the local cable company had two
bucket trucks working in my block today(at my pleading)and all is quiet
at the moment.....must have been how I worded my request!~
DCFluX wrote:
>Sounds like "The Beast" payed you a visit. For a fun and ammusing
>test, hook a handie talkie to the duplexers TX port and key it on low
>power on your TX freqency. This should drown your reciever into
>oblivion with noise no matter what the power level.
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>Borrow a spectrum analyzer and watch as broadband noise rises + and -
>600kHz from your carrier as you key up.
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>An even funner experiment is to get s 7 element beam with a step
>attenuator and hook it to a hand held and put it on your RX frequency
>and force the repeater into key down mode. Walk about a block from
>your antenna and watch in amazement as all the interference is coming
>from your house.
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>I am betting that there are two FM stations that are 600kHz apart,
>Sit down with a FM reciever and plot out the band to see who is who.
>Then you can check the vast wasteland of the FCC database to determine
>what power people are running. You need to find the mixer, which
>could be anything from a clock radio to an electric blanket.
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>Changing the antenna doesn't work either, I've tried a Station Master,
>DB-264, Larsen Magnet Mount and even a coat hanger ground plane with
>no changes in the interference.
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>We were never able to solve the problem so we had to adopt split site.
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>We are followers of "The Beast", and you are one of us now.
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>--Matt
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