Re: [IRCA] Skywave Noise
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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three piece suit - claims, "Everything below 200 MHz is  obsolete".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.
 
                                                                              
                     z
 
 
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? <g>

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA  USA
www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com


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From: "Craig Healy"  <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] Skywave noise
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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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