[Premium-Rx] Broadband Over Power Lines

[Walter Salmaniw]

At 06:14 PM 1/11/2004, Gary Follett wrote:
>The info in the web page is all well and good but I am already contending 
>with some mystery interference source here in Saint Paul and it is far 
>worse than even the worst case scenario for BPL.
>
>What I get is something that sounds like digital spread spectrum. It 
>covers all the HF bands with 20 over S9 signals that have duration in the 
>range of 3 seconds with a period of 5 seconds. They occur about every 10 
>KHz and are not related to the old 15,525 junk that we formerly heard from 
>TV sets. It makes anything resembling "weak signal" reception impossible.
>
>It is directional and about 10 times as strong to my north as to the south.
>
>Anyone have any ideas? I contacted Hollingsworth and he had heard nothing 
>of it.

Gary, time for some serious DFing to localize the source.  First thing I'd 
do, is to pull out a cheap little battery portable.  Turn off the power in 
your house and ensure it's nothing within your own home, just in 
case.  Then start walking around the neighbourhood.  Fully depress the whip 
if necessary and see if you can localize the problem.  I'd love to hear 
your results, as more and more of us are having similar 
difficulties............Walt.




Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD
     Victoria, BC, Canada