[NLRS] 6m and up noise

[Brad Johannes]

Just an update from when I started this topic.

I kept a log of when and where I heard the noise. One day when it was 
strong, I drove around with my handheld at 135mhz am, in the direction my 
beam told me the noise was. I found a power pole with 3 transformers on it, 
in an industrial area of St. Cloud, 1 mile from my house. When I drove under 
the pole, it was clearly audiable at 135mhz. I repeated this routine a 
couple times. When I heard the noise loud on 6m at home, it was noisy at the 
pole. When 6m was quiet at home, it was quiet under the pole. After 
searching there website, I called Xcel customer support and asked what it 
would take to file a report or whatever I needed to to. They took my report 
right there on the phone, and the next day I got a call from one of the 
local line men. We discused my findings and he said he would go check out 
the area. Couple days later he called me back and said there was a bad 
lightning arrestor on the pole I pointed him to, and he replaced it and 
wanted me to check for any more noise.

I monitored 6m again, and found a new sounding noise, with a different beam 
heading. After shuting down the circuit breakers in the house one at a time, 
turned out my camper trailer, which is pluged into the garage to keep the 
battery charged, has a very noisy power convertor. I turned off the 
convertor and the new noise was gone.

Back to the radio again and started tuning around. 6m was quite but I had 
some bad noise on 160m. That ended up being the APC UPS sitting under my 
bench.

I'm on the NW side of St. Cloud, if I sweep my 6m beam a full rotation, the 
noise floor is a little higher from about SE-S but nothing that moves the S 
meter like it used to. I don't expect I'll ever find all the noise sources 
in town, and didn't plan on trying. I'm happy for now. Xcel was very 
helpfull and understanding.


>
>Hi;
>
>Take a look at this site, It might be of some help identifying the source 
>of your noise.
>
>Noise Identification web site by VE3HLS:
>
>http://ve3hls.tripod.com/noise/rfihome.html
>
>Listen to the audio samples to identify
>any noise sources you might be experiencing,
>or help others identify unknown noises.
>
>73
>Jon, K0FQA
>