[IRCA] An odd RF noise problem solved

[Stephen Hawkins <ng0g@xxxxxxxxx>]

IRCA,

I have a pinched nerve in my back from a ruptured disk that is keeping me up a 
lot at night.  So it is possible that I have already let you all know this 
and am just too tired to remember.  If so, delete this.

A couple of months ago I noticed a new kind of interference.  It was always 
there even in the day time.  I shut off power to my house and it was still 
there so I figured for a while that it must be one of the neighbors.  NOT!

It was the propane powered mosquito trap that my wife bought so that she could 
work in the garden and not be constantly attacked by squadrons of huge mutant 
mosquitoes.

I woke up at about 0300, and while in the kitchen attempting too get a cup of 
live saving balm, I noticed a faint blinking light on my lawn.  Thinking that 
perhaps a UFO had landed in my yard,  I went out side with my cell phone 
prepared to call Coast to Coast AM.  I could see that the light was coming 
from her mosquito trap.  As I got closer I could hear a fan running.  Since I 
put it together for her, I knew that it had no source of power other then the 
propane.  It turns out that they are using the propane burner to generate CO2 
to attract mosquitoes, and to somehow generate electricity to cause two 
lights to blink, and to run a fan that sucks the careless mosquito that 
ventures too close into the trap.  It also generates an odd almost whine on 
all frequencies below 10MHZ.  Perhaps above also but those antennas are 
farther away so I had not noticed it there.

Steve
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Steve Hawkins NG0G
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