[IRCA] Battling the QRN monkies - with a phaser

["Colin Newell" <cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have not used my Misek (Ratzlaff built) phaser in
some time - perhaps a couple of years.

Blue the dust off it in my current battle against
some new and ever present digital-hash noise. Likely
culprit - all the new low-energy fluorescent bulbs
in our building or a noisy plasma screen display.

Success - powered everything up and nulled out
the noise leaving great signals untouched.

Next project is to replace the #18 insulated wire in
my Wellbrook ALA100 Hula-Hoop loops with some
hefty #10 insulated wire - yup, it's like licorice
rope - not sure how, if at all, it will change the
performance of the loops - in reality, I use double
windings of wire in each Hula and according to the engineer
at Wellbrook, they should be single coils of wire.

Who knows: Tahiti is being heard in Michigan...
maybe I will able to hear it here!

Good DX!

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Colin Newell - Victoria B.C. DXer and Ham - VA7WWV
Radios: ICOM 703+ / DRAKE R8 / ETON E1 / Kenwood R2000
Antennas: Wellbrook ALA100's
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