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

[Jim Brannigan]

Thanks for the heads-up.  I use Linksys Routers and their Wireless access
point.  No problems with noise or RFI while running a KW.
I will file this information away for, hopefully never, future use.

BTW Linksys was just purchased by Cisco...

Jim

> 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.
>
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