[IRCA] Victoria B.C. Cable system noise update -

["Colin Newell" <cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey radio people - I reported recently that (a month ago)
I was shocked by the appearance of a very powerful broadband noise
source in my normally quiet apartment building --
100khz to almost 200Mhz at levels up to -23dbm (that is around 30 to
50db over S9! Try DXing through that!)

This QRN has effectively ended my DXing career at my current QTH

Reported it to SHAW-Cable (via Twitter) this week
and had a tech visit scheduled within a few hours.
Oddly, I had a call from Ohio last night - an engineer
from Cincinnati (which really surprised the tech) who was
FCC certified (and allegedly works for SHAW) that was
very interested in my trouble ticket... and was astounded by
the numbers I was reporting...

Anyhow - Had the tech in at 3:30 PM today.

Shut the power off to the entire apartment and grabbed
one of my transistor radios and demonstrated the issue.

His jaw hit the ground when he noted the energy levels
of radio-frequency noise that were emanating from
the cable system.

He apologized that he could not do anything at the moment
and would have the maintenance team check it out starting
on Monday.

Will be interesting to see where this goes.

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