Re: [IRCA] Skywave Noise
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Re: [IRCA] Skywave Noise



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> From: Milspec390@xxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:51:11 -0400
> To: dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Skywave Noise
> 
> '93, househunting. Realtor acksed what price range. Replied, before getting  
> into price, no deed restricted communities. She laughed, said that made job  
> easy, 98 percent of FL properties off list.
>  
>  Showed us Casa d'Amplitron. Prior to stepping from car, gave  bats moment to 
> exit home while checking rental car AM for interference  & sig quality. All 
> good. Had it been otherwise, no soap mister.
>  
>  Next home houseboat, converted HU-16 or inland mass  acreage away from 
> cities. Site here still good, FPL reiable re fixing  what few interference troubles 
> arise. 
> 
> As others report, radio  punchbowl here solely befouled by big, fat, greaszy 
> HD  dog-doot steaming outa Tampa and to lesser extent Miami & Ft.  Myers, and 
> by night, worse than imagined from everywhere.
>  
>  Nite HD noise literally flips in/out as w/FM 'picket-fencing'. Awful?  No, 
> horrid. An abomination.
>  
>  Neighbors thus far not jamming w/wireless. Share FPL xfmr w/one  neighbor. 
> Should they go 'wireless', will install dedicated pole-pig.
>  
>  Some 4 -5 meg noise possibly from Verizon DSL. Telco RF filters  coming.
>  
>  A New Economy proponent - about as close as one can get to  cat plop in a 
> three piece suit - claims, "Everything below 200 MHz is  obsolete".
>  
>  Yeah? Then why use it for 'wireless' jammers,eh? So some big,  fat, beer 
> bloated slob such as undersigned can flop carcass onna  sofa, watch Debbie Does 
> D.H. Lawrence onna laptop,  there?  Putrid doubletalk.
>  
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>  
> PV Zecchino
> Manaputrescence Key, FL
>  
>  
> In a message dated 8/13/2008 7:10:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> Craig,
> 
> Walt Salmaniw would be a good choice for someone to "put  a BOG at the end
> of a peninsula aimed straight out to 
> sea". His  vacation cottage on the Queen Charlotte Islands (BC) is a few
> miles from an  incredible, very isolated 
> peninsula jutting out into the Pacific. The view  of the ocean and the
> Hecate Strait is nearly 360 degrees  around!
> 
> Perhaps he could take a 4x4 vehicle (the only way to access the  property)
> to the location, power his laptop and 
> Perseus receiver by  battery, and check the noise levels through the sunset
> period. However, he  may need to camp 
> and spend the night there to do this investigation; the  poor excuse for a
> road to get there and back is treacherous 
> even in the  daytime.
> 
> Alternatively, his cottage is also quite remote with a low  noise level, and
> on the Pacific facing Alaska. The same test 
> with an  SDR (due to the typically very accurate signal meters) right from
> his  cottage would be informative due to its 
> isolation and long distance from  broadcasters.
> 
> Walt, are you up to some DXing from the Queen Charlottes  in the name of
> research? 
> 
> Guy Atkins
> Puyallup, WA  USA
> www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com
> 
> 
> --------Original  Message---------------------------------------
> From: "Craig Healy"  
> Subject: [IRCA] Skywave noise
> To:  "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
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> The overall noise level has increased  significantly in the past couple of
> decades.  This noise will  propagate just like a radio station.  Since it
> comes from every  direction, it really can't be nulled.  Other than putting a
> BOG at the  end of a peninsula aimed straight out to sea, there's no  killing
> it.
> 
> Is anyone in a very quiet area daytime that notices the  overall noise floor
> increase substantially after sunset?  Say at an  unused frequency like
> 495KHz?
> 
> This may be a factor in why weak DX  stations simply aren't heard like they
> were in years past.
> 
> Anyone  know the next scheduled major blackout?  (grin)
> 
> Craig  Healy
> Providence,  RI
> 
> 
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