[Elecraft] noiseblanker

[Fred Jensen]

FWIW:  I live around electric fences.  For the most part, they are owned 
by city-folk who have recently bought a place out here, have never seen 
an electric fence, and don't know what to do with one (some don't even 
know not to touch it, but they tend to learn :-) ).  Pretty much like 
clockwork, one will pop up in the HF bands, particularly in the winter. 
  I've found the best solution is to take my KX1 out, find the arc(s), 
ground the fence, fix them, and remove the ground.  I talk to the owner 
the first time, and they're always a happy to have me do it, often it 
gets into their TV and cordless phones as well.  After that, I just do 
it.  They think I'm a great neighbor, they have no idea that it takes 
only 30 sec or so to fix it, and I keep my mouth shut.  YMMV

The NB on my TS-850 doesn't do much with the pulses either, don't know why.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw

Evert Bakker (PA2KW) wrote:
> Hello Arie,
> 
> I can confirm that the noise blanker does not work at all with electric
> fence pulses. Unfortunately I experienced that the noise blanker is very
> critical to the type of noise. Up to now I did not find any "real life
> noise" that could be handled by the NB. I heard several comments that it
> should work well with ignition type of noise sources. So I was very
> surprised that I could not see any difference with or without the NB when
> having troubles with the electric fence. So, you are not the only one having
> doubts about this NB.
> 
> Evert, PA2KW