Thanks to everyone who replied.  On a related note, I found something 
at home that probably answered my question.  Lately I noticed that 
there was a weak carrier centered on 144.390.  This was causing my APRS 
IGate to not transmit because it sensed that the channel was busy.  It 
took a long time to find the source which turned out to be my APRS 
IGate computer.  Further investigation showed that it only happened 
when certain combinations of programs were running.  Any other 
combination of running programs created no interferenc anywhere in the 
2m band.  Further investigation with a spectrum analyzer confirmed 
this.  I then tried using my frequency counter to get an exact 
frequency only to find that it generated another half dozen spikes 
throughout the 2m band.

So I think the answer is that just about anything electronic is a 
potential source of my interference and sometimes the source is so 
bizarre that you would never suspect it.

73, Bruce



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