[Elecraft] Station setup

Sun Oct 19 02:29:01 2003

Justin,

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest.. (I live in the
Tri-Cities---Richland).
First thing I would do is cut the power to the house and see
if the noise was still there.

If it goes, then isolate the house circuits, one by one... I
had trouble with the switches that had built-in neon lights,

If it doesn't go when you cut the power, then I would start
walking the area with a Aircraft band VHF AM receiver, and
see what I could find....

Is the house ( or near neighbors) pre-wired for
broadband/DSL ???

Does your neighbor have one of the new *big* HDTV's ??

One of my "tools" is the AM receiver in my car... tuned to
one end of the band, volume up a bit, and listening while
I'm driving..

I don't know if this helps, but this group has a lot of
knowledge and experience...

Dave KK7SS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Grenier" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Station setup
>>.  On all bands, my noise level with both antennae is
anywhere between S8 and 30-50dB >>over S9.  It is impossible
for me to operate with 100w, let alone 1w, and very
frustrating as >>I am losing a bit of cw proficiency.  There
is no BPL test area around as far as I know.  >>We .have 3
PCs on a router here in the house, 1 of them implements the
802.11b wireless >>thing...I have tried unplugging and
shutting down all of it with absolutely no change in my rx
>>noise level.  Any suggestions as to where I might continue
looking would be sincerely >>appreciated.