Mike-
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:33:10 -0500, Mike Besemer (WM4B) <[email protected]> wrote: > I was told (caveat) that he verified the spectrum after the interference > started. Since he's investing quite a bit of time into helping clear > this > up, I have to believe he's done that. > > A few years ago we had a similar problem, except the pager location/ID was unknown. It took almost 2 years to find it, and one phone call to the pager to fix it. The final proof was standing outside the fence with one radio listening to the pager traffic and one on our repeater. After the pager traffic QUIT, the PA started the spur on our input. The statement above could well be true, as most people think of spectrum verification as being "while transmitting". In our case the temperature involved was outdoor temp, in the range of 10-25 degrees F, causing it to drift through our input passband into another repeater's passband, which further complicated the foxhunt aspect, hi! In your case, you are hearing the traffic as well, which suggests a mix to me. You might juggle the numbers a bit and see what freq would give you an interfering mix. It could be generated in the owner's idle PA (as someone above suggested ) or a totally foreign TX. As the owner seems pretty cooperative, eliminating both his TX's should be pretty easy, If you were really lucky, it would be his idle PA mixing with his active PA and the site of the fix would be in sight! (Sorry -couldn't resist that one.) Good Luck!! Dick W0RFX -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
