When I lived by the ocean in Southern California, I would watch the corona glow on the power line insulators evenings when it was damp.
Mike Dietrich wrote: > > > Hi To All & Hope everybody had a good Christmas, > > While the subject was brought up, I have been having a similar > experience here at my location. > It is not on a repeater, but a simplex radio (vertex VX3000l mobile) for > a base on the natl Red Cross freq of 47 mhz. > In the daytime the receiver is quiet and hears fine. > It seems as about the time the sun starts going down, the receiver's > squelch opens and has a constant static noise for many hours but still > receives fine. > It may do it all night, I don't know, I haven't stayed up to see, just > leave the radio on and go to bed. > Was wondering if could be power line noise (but why wouldn't do in > daytime also)? > Is there any interference to the HF bands like this at night? > > Thanks, > Mike KB5FLX >
