[Elecraft] [OT] A Very Quiet Day

[Dave Cole]

We are getting ready to move...  One of the processes I intend on 
performing on any new site is described at:

https://www.nk7z.net/sdr-rfi-survey-p1/

using an SDR as a site survey tool...  I will have a quiet location...

73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources

On 9/10/20 4:19 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
> 
> I used to travel to Malaysia quite often on business, and one of the 
> guys who worked for me there as an ex-pat in Kuala Lumpur had gotten a 
> 9M2 license.  So I went over to his apartment one evening with the 
> intention of working some 40m CW as a guest op, but the background noise 
> was a horrendous scratchy buzz that ran at least S9+30.  When I went 
> outside to look around I could see why.  Malaysia gets a lot of rain, 
> things are wet much of the time, and back then (at least 30 years ago) 
> many of the electrical insulators on the overhead power lines were dirty 
> with pollution.  I could see constant arcing across dozens of insulators.
> 
> I'm retired now and live on a reasonably quiet semi-rural hillside, and 
> !sometimes! on a quiet evening my QRN level on 160m is down below S2 
> even on my Inverted-L.  Counting my blessings ...
> 
> 73
> Dave   AB7E
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/10/2020 2:17 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
>>
>> ======================
>> Well, here's the flip side. My old qth was noisy enough, but the real
>> eye-opener came when I toted my KX3 to Hyderabad, India a few years 
>> ago. I
>> was teaching at the Indian School of Business and living in the faculty
>> apartments, and I had brought the KX3 along expecting to hear a bunch of
>> call-signs that would sound exotic to a midwestern Yank. So I strung up a
>> wire around the walls of my living room, up near the ceiling, and laid a
>> counterpoise out along the floor. Donning my headphones I switched it on,
>> looking forward to an evening of entertainment as I tuned 20 CW.
>> Zowie! What a cacophony of squeals, buzzes, crashes, honks and toots,
>> burps, whistles and grinds. The S-meter jumped up to about S9+10 and 
>> stuck
>> there. Nowhere on the band, it seemed, was there a slot wide enough for a
>> signal to peep through. Finally I was able to discern a little peep
>> half-buried beneath the layers of trash, a lonely VU2 calling CQ. I
>> answered him, but of course to no avail. On a later night I heard a few
>> words from a QSO between a local ham and a VR2 in Hong Kong, and that was
>> the sum total of my ham experience while there. Where were the noises
>> coming from? I dunno -- from everywhere, it sounded like.
>>
>> 73,
>> Tony KT0NY
> 
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