[Elecraft] 160M Birdies?

[Don Wilhelm]

Paul,
It certainly sounds like your 'birdies' are actually externally generated
signals - real birdies will be heard with the antenna disconnected.  I would
be inclined to look to a TV - TV horizontal oscillator radiation will appear
about every 15 kHz and is quite noticable on 160 and 80 meters - if it is
your own TV, you can turn it off, but if it is a neighbors - well, you do
what you can!
73,
Don W3FPR

----- Original Message ----- 

| With the antenna connected.  With just a two foot
| piece of coax connected I can hear the signals,
| but they are much weaker; with nothing connected
| to the antenna jack, I can't really hear the
| signals at all.  What I'm hearing must somehow be
| caused by an external signal then, no?
| Commercial AM?
|
| - Paul, N6LQ
|
| On Saturday 11 October 2003 17:39, you wrote:
| > Paul
| > Are you receiving them with the antenna
| connected
| > or disconnected?
| > 73, Bob N6WG