[SMCARA] HAM Detectives

[Sam Leach]

Boz,

 

I will loan you my radio shack DX-400 receiver.  It is how I found a mercury
vapor lamp over on South Essex Drive that was killing 30 meters.  It was a
drifty / warbling radiator and on a 25 foot pole (exactly 1/4 wave @ 10
MHz).  I'm betting that you could hear that light in Europe on a good night.
The folks were great about shutting it down and changing the bulb.  Problem
solved.

 

I'm replying to all, just because this is a success story and we all
experience that kind of problem from time to time.

 

Coordinate re delivery of same (301-994-9732).

 

73

 

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: smcara-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:smcara-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of KG3BOZ
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:49 AM
To: SMCARA Reflector (E-mail)
Subject: [SMCARA] HAM Detectives

 

Hams with experience finding and eliminating QRM, lend me your 

eyes and ears:

 

I need your help.  For about a week now, I have been experiencing very

heavy QRM across the -entire- HF Spectrum.  I can even hear it on six 

meters (weaker) through 80 meters. It's so heavy at times, the signal 

meter on my TS 2000 is PEGGED.  It's not ALWAYS there, but it is there

more often than not.  The end result is that it effectively wipes out

my receive capability.  Two meters seems unaffected.

 

After speaking with KJ4FZT (Grant) my thought on how to find it was 

to use an HF battery operated station, we could hook it up, and then

kill the power mains to the house.  If the interference goes away, 

we will know it is inside my house and troubleshoot accordingly.  

If it doesn't go away, it's outside the house and then make plans

to DX it.

 

I do not have a battery operated station or experience in finding

interference.  If you have one or both of the above, please let me

know if you can assist.

 

DE KG3BOZ

 

 

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