[Elecraft] FM Broadcast Station Interference

[Tom Hammond NØSS]

Tom:

Just for grins, see if DISCONNECTING your KEY lead reduces or eliiminates 
the interference. I think I'm experiencing the same problem.

73,

Tom Hammond   N0SS

At 04:39 PM 5/28/02, you wrote:
>Unfortunately I live about 6 miles line of sight from a FM station running
>34kw of rock 'n roll on 99.9 MHz. I receive crud from this station without
>any antenna connected to the K2. Now thats Free Music! Using either a dc
>supply or external battery makes no difference. Interestingly enough, when I
>connect an antenna the interference does not change all that much. I could
>live with the crud but it seems to generally appear in the qrp cw segments
>(of course), especially on 20m as well as 40 and 80m. I have built two K2s
>and both exhibited this problem. Just wondering if there was any additional
>filtering etc I could install to help with this issue? In ALL areas except
>this one I much prefer the K2 to my 756 PRO: the PRO shows no evidence of
>this interference. Any suggestions (besides moving!) would be most welcome.