[Elecraft] OT P3 video of RFI, ideas?

[Tom]

Hi
I am using a dxengineering active receive antenna with a 102" whip, mounted at ground level about 30 feet away from my av620 vertical. I'm using is as a noise antenna while the av620 is my main antenna. 
Waiting until the weather cools off to install my first beam. Should be less noisy than the vertical.
Tom

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On 2013-07-06, at 5:50 PM, "dmb at lightstream.net" <dmb at lightstream.net> wrote:

> Hello Tom,
> 
> Thanks for your post! As it turns out, I have a local source of broadband
> noise that is not quite as bad as yours, but it still causes me grief.
> Unforutunately, I don't know it's source, though I suspect a computer
> power supply. I've had an NCC-1 for a while (superb design!), and have
> used it with a couple of homebrew "mini-whip" vertical active antennas, as
> well as a homebrew magnetic loop with a low-impedance buffer/amp instead
> of a tuning capacitor.
> 
> I'm curious what you are using for an active antenna, and wonder if you
> are using the active antenna as the "noise-sense" antenna and working the
> NCC-1 against your transmitting antenna, or are you using multiple active
> antennas for receiving?
> 
> 73, Dale
> WA8SRA
> 
> 
>> I have a neighbor who has a plasma. But what is worse I have a neighbor
>> two doors down whose outside lights cause 30-40 db of noise from 7MHz to
>> 20 MHz! I offered to change them for him, and asked him to at least just
>> turn them on at night. He has a timer, but he leaves them on many times
>> all day. His wife was great, if they were on I'd ring the bell and ask her
>> to turn them off...no problem. The one time he answered the door, he
>> started yelling at me calling every name under the sun, and called the
>> cops. Cops looked at my station (one was a cb-er) and said there was not
>> much they could do.I solved the issue by buying an active antenna and a
>> ncc antenna phaser. Here is what it can do!
>> 
>> 
>> http://va2fsq.com/wp-content/uploads/2013-Jan-15-20-43-43.avi
>> 
>> 
>> Copy the link and paste it in windows media player (File - Open network
>> location).
>> 
>> 
>> Problem solved. Too bad it doesn't work remotely.
>> 
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/6/13, Don Allen  <w9cw at w9cw.com> wrote:
>>> Although this thread is quite mature, I will add my experience with
>>> plasma TVs, one of which is a Pioneer Elite. Both of my next door
>>> neighbors have plasmas - one a Panasonic and the other the Pioneer.
>>> DXing "used to be" my favorite aspect of ham radio, and 40m my favorite
>>> band, but since the neighbors' acquisition of the plasma TVs, the plasma
>>> noise/spurs can be a constant S8 to S9. To say it's frustrating,
>>> especially when I've always tried to be a "good neighbor" in terms of my
>>> ham radio operations, is an understatement. Plasma TVs are equivalent to
>>> thousands of spark gap transmitters!
>>> 
>>> Until recently, I only operated either very late at night or early AM,
>>> or when the neighbors weren't home, or if by chance, weren't watching
>>> TV. However, a few months ago I purchased a Pixel Technologies RF-Pro-1B
>>> magnetic receiving loop which has helped immensely. The plasma noise is
>>> now typically an S4 or S5, sometimes even a bit lower when I carefully
>>> adjust the azimuth of the the loop with the rotor. It's also helped with
>>> the persistent line noise problem that the power utility is totally
>>> unresponsive to address. I essentially use the receive antenna input on
>>> my rigs 100% of the time now.
>>> 
>>> I wish the FCC would ban the sales and marketing of plasma TVs!
>>> 
>>> Don
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 7/6/2013 2:19 PM, Chris Pinholster wrote:
>>>> Suppose the manufacturer can't or won't fix it? What happens then? I
>>> have a Pioneer Elite plasma in my house that radiates plenty. Anyone
>>> have any experience with Pioneer?
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
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