[Kenwood] Birdie on 50.125

[waldan at cox.net]

John, I had the same problem also on 6 meters and tracked it down to my computer power supply. I had a hard time finding it because I assumed when I turned off the computer it went duad and that was not the case. Something in the switching power supply stayed hot and active when it was plugged in. Make sure it is unplugged and not just turned off. It may also not be comming from you. I first tried to track it down in my neighbor hood like and idiot before checking righ in my own house. I went around with a scanner on the effected 6 meter freq and found I could hear it one house away from my house. In my house I could pick it up with the antenna off the scanner. Try that and let me know what happens.


Walter
KD5ZJP

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> From: "John  Geiger (NE0P)" <ne0p at lcisp.com>
> Date: 2005/07/07 Thu PM 01:42:43 EDT
> To: <kenwoodts-2000 at yahoogroups.com>,  <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Kenwood] Birdie on 50.125
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> Recently a kind of nasty birdie has shown up on 50.125, which makes listening to the calling frequency frustrating.  The Autonotch and beat cancel on the TS2000 will handle it pretty well, but still not as well as if it wasn't there.  I have tried turning off/unplugging several things in the home (computers, VCR, DVD players) with no luck so far.  One ham had a problem with his internet router, so I tried unplugging that also, along with the cable modem.  No luck there.  Has anyone on the list have this problem before, and if so, what was the final cause of it?  It peaks about S3 from the NE direction, and will get weaker when I move the miniquad to the direct south or NW.  That suggests that it could be outside the house, and might go drive around the neighborhood a little this weekend to try and localize it, but would like to eliminate things in the house first.
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> 73s John NE0P
> EM04 
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