Am stuck now several days under a load waiting to be delivered.
Am at a favorite truck stop (Petro, Weatherford, TX), so it’s not as perturbing when this happens in West Timbuktu.
One can’t NOT think about radio performance when sitting still several days.
The question of noise with engine off, etc, is still affected by running the ESPAR diesel-fired bunk heater (almost imperceptible); the obvious gain when the THERMOKING APU fires up, and when running the main engine.
Second is daylight or dark.
Quietist is in the pre-dawn hours away from a metro area, everything turned off.
To run an experiment of noise treatment, this suggested background leaves no room for doubt.
I’ve had MIX 31 ferrites sprouting all over the rig. When I also seeded MIX 61 (thanks, M0GVZ) it was confirmation in the quiet hours at several different rest areas made me a believer (I’ll use 61 first in the future).
These two aren’t the only choices.
But being able to detect a star farting at 3.8k light-years distance DEFINES the ideal noise background whereby one knows he isn’t fooling himself.
This truck stop less than 20-miles west from the IH-820 Fort Worth loop. “Quieter” than my home about 2-miles from that loop despite big trucks parked around me (thankfully, no reefers; but some are idling all night).
Though where I am isn’t perfect, I could idle across this huge lot to a remote parking spot about o’dark thirty and come very close to a West Texas rest area (where the Milky Way obvious almost every night).
Throwing noise patches in every direction is SOP (have the priest bless them, right?), so I am recommending also a remote location to find satisfaction in testing.
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