When I moved here in rural Belfast Maine, year 1990, I only had three close neighbors. As time has gone on, have new single house neighbors, then the city okayed a low-income housing development. Have from 24 t0 32 families within about 500 feet. Noise you bet, too many to correct. Inhabitants keep changing. Good antennas are the only solution so far. 73 Bruce-k1fz
----- Forwarded message from [email protected] ----- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:57:51 -0600 From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Topband: Noise sources in general To: Guy Olinger K2AV , Joe Galicic , [email protected] With ever burgeoning sources of manmade noise (various energy efficient lights, switching supplies, computer related hardware, etc.) it would seem the only real way to escape the noise problem is to abandon the the urban/suburban areas and move to the country. Even then casinos, wind energy farms, and other commercial enterprises can move in to create unsolvable, multiple noise sources from multiple directions killing the prospects for a low noise environment, especially on TB. My noise floor on TB out here in the Iowa countryside has gone from somewhere in the -130 dbm range to about -107dbm (or more)@250 Hz bandwidth during daytime hours. . .and it's not power line noise. New houses have popped up 1/2 - 3/4 mile away and with every new one the noise floor continues to creep upward. My biggest noise source used to be electric fences in various directions, which the NB took care of nicely. Now the problem has changed and can't really be solved. . .except to perhaps move out further. 73. . .Dave, W0FLS -----Original Message----- From: Guy Olinger K2AV Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 8:17 AM To: Joe Galicic Cc: List, TopBand ; William Hill Subject: Re: Topband: Plasma TV noise We can all thank our lucky stars that plasma TV has got to the point where vanishing popularity has got its numbers down to where it no longer has economy of scale. Economics are killing it. What you can do at your neighbor's party is to pour some Pepsi inside his TV and hasten it's demise. Sledge hammers would work too, but it's hard to be covert using a sledge hammer. The replacement will be LED-based, which happily now has both quality and economics of scale tilting positive. The new radio killer will be solar cells that have individual controllers so a shadow on one part of a panel doesn't kill the whole panel. New battle, new economics, new solutions. 73, Guy K2AV _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband ----- End forwarded message ----- _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
