[R-390] powerline noise - it's dead, I've killed it!

[Terry O'Laughlin]

I want to thank everyone for their suggestions on finding my horrible noise 
generator.  And Dave Maples gets a big thanks for his right on the money 
suggestion.  Today was the perfect day to tackle his suggestion because I 
had to rest all the clocks anyway.

I found the noise generator and it was not some marginal piece of junk.  It 
is a one year old Linksys 100 Base-T, 4 port hub.  This thing spent the 
eight months of it's life three feet from my receiver rack.  I'm going to 
complain to the manufacturer otherwise I'd take it out in the street and 
drive over it with my VW microbus for the sheer satisfaction of hearing the 
case shatter.  I guess the foil FCC Part 15 sticker was not big enough to 
do it's job.

I am so relieved.  I was ready to give up on the SW/MW/LW bands as a 
hobby.  My present QTH is still noisy, but not the S9 to +20 noise I've had 
for the last year.  It really made me wish I was still in the farmhouse in 
Barneveld, WI set on a narrow ridge of iron bearing sandstone and yielding 
European LW broadcasters several times every winter (on a 40 meter dipole 
used as a T no less).

Thanks again,
Terry O'
WB9GVB


At 19:22 2003-3-26 -0500, you wrote:
>Terry: First, I think I'd check to see if my own house was in order. If you
can drop power to your entire house, do that with the Sony on batteries and
see if the spur goes away. If it does, then restore power and drop breakers
one at a time till you find the offending circuit, then go figure out what
equipment is causing the problem.