[BULK] - RE: [BULK] - [SixClub] the band

[Steve Katz]

> Hello Steve - most of the time I sit on 50.125 and monitor...this sound
> comes in & out, sometimes it's quite strong, other times not so strong,
> at times it's like it's moving through 50.125 as if it's moving down the
> band...once in a while I scan from 50.0 to 50.2...I use an FT-817 to a
> Cushcraft 4 element beam horizontal at 55 feet...I haven't rotated but I
> can do that...I will also switch to FM next time...tnx 73 Bruce.
> 
> ::The FT-817 overloads pretty easily, but I wouldn't imagine that's much
> of a problem unless you have something quite strong in your area.  As
> others have commented, could be cable TV leakage, but if it was it should
> be continuous and not come and go.  It also wouldn't be moving in
> frequency, but would be too broad a signal to actually demodulate
> ("copy"), so it sounds like off-frequency modulation with buzzing, etc.
> When you hear this stuff, rotate the beam and see what happens.  There are
> a zillion things this "might" be.  One that comes to mind is a spur from a
> paging transmitter or public service transmitter or repeater, or if not a
> spur than just intermod in your receiver caused by the strong signal from
> one of these.  Using a 52 MHz low pass filter in the antenna line (like a
> Drake TV-52-LP) might help a lot, if that's what it is....-WB2WIK/6