[ILQSO] Line noise

[John Geiger]

I know that Pete, NN9K has a 7000 he uses.  One of the
best NBs I have found for dealing with power line
noise, and the other crap you get from living in an
older, tightly packed neighborhood is in the Yaesu
FT100D.

73s John AA5JG
 
--- Joe LeKostaj <k9ly at comcast.net> wrote:

> At 3:49 PM +0200 10/22/07, James Funk wrote:
> >
> >When the line noise is S9 or higher and you don't
> have time
> >to pull off onto a line-less side road, I don't
> know what to try.
> >Comments from other mobiles?? 
> >
> 
> Jim,
> A very tough problem indeed. There always seem to be
> power lines 
> paralleling the county line roads, so they're
> especially hard to 
> avoid for an ILQP county line operation. Obviously a
> noise blanker 
> such as the one in the IC-706 is a good start but
> it's not completely 
> effective. I suspect there's a lot of variance in
> the noise spectra 
> of different power lines.
> 
> I wonder how good the digital noise blanker in the
> IC-7000 is. Icom's 
> website says "The NB level and width (blanking
> duration) are 
> adjustable in 100 steps." Of course, it's hard to
> dink around with 
> the settings when you're flying down a gravel road.
> 
> Anyone out there with an IC-7000 who can comment on
> the effectiveness 
> of the digital noise blanker for power line noise?
> 
> 73,
> Joe K9LY
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