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Nasty static showing up all over town...anyone else?

Hello All: Great reply DJboutit thanks. I have also a neighbor with solar cell RFI but its not bad, it shows up every 200 Kc, so while tuning the Ham or CB Bands a small signal every 200 Kc shows up on the spectrum display. So I am getting use it as a frequency marker and it doesn't really interfere with anything. But power line noise at times is pretty bad. Thanks again. Time to put beam back up.

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
 
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Jay Mojave said:
Yep thats power line noise all right. Being out here in the Mojave Desert with high winds and land scattering sand and dust all the time, the lines and insulators get dirty and arc causing RFI all over the bands. Its all over the place and many times have to drive some what out of town to find a quiet place. I have called the power company many times and complained, and I even tell them what pole its coming from.

The latest noise is a pole about 150 feet from me, while listening to the noise in my 1977 luxury truck I slam the pole with a sledge hammer and the noise quits for a moment. I don't share that with the power company.

They have fixed about 5 noisy RFI problems in the local area. They showed up for the pole just across the street once, I came out and talked to them, There attitude was "go away son you bother me" but they fixed it so I cant complain I guess.

I bought a new Icom 7300 about 6 months ago, and it has a impressive noise cancelling functions Noise Blanker and ANL that works quit well. Looking into a some ferrites for the coax.....

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
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Plink the insulators with a 22
 
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Jay Mojave said:
Hello All: Great reply DJboutit thanks. I have also a neighbor with solar cell RFI but its not bad, it shows up every 200 Kc, so while tuning the Ham or CB Bands a small signal every 200 Kc shows up on the spectrum display. So I am getting use it as a frequency marker and it doesn't really interfere with anything. But power line noise at times is pretty bad. Thanks again. Time to put beam back up.

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
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We have solar panels going up all around me in the sub-division. Looking at the display on my 7300 you can see them. I think it is going to get much worse. The filtering on these things must be non-existent. Time for me to take the radio out to the woods and see what happens. POTA comes to mind.
 
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Never heard it before but its everywhere like its coming in on the powerlines or something.
It seems to shift to different areas of the valley too.

21-30mhz is the worst areas of the band
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I have the same noise here in Toronto. Canada on & off the past month or so. Some days it's strong other days not so much. I think it's sun spots or other atmospheric noise.
 
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Man, that sounds like the same garbage I'm hearing through the base receivers here in Texas. I went as far as going through the house with the handheld trying to find the noise, even thought it could have been mine or the neighbors central air units but nada..... Took a ride around the block with the handheld to see if it would get stronger around the transformers but nothing suspect.
 
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Local Noise yeah.... The locals distinguished radio guys were complaining about bacon sizzling type noise all over the bands and all over the place location wise.

I built a crude magnetic loop and antenna and drove all over the place figuring it was power line noise or something inducing noise into the power lines. I found that when I was underneath the High Voltage Lines I could hear the noise louder. These High Voltage Lines are the highest power lines on the poles and on steel towers.

I could not pin point or DF ( Direction Find ) the noise, as it was every were/direction. I am sure many who drove by while I was trying to DF the noise thought I was a looney, use to that.

So maybe it was solar noise of some sort. It only lasted a few weeks ragging havoc on all the HF Bands. Many dropped their antenna and looked them over, some even changed their coax. I drove all over even out into the Mojave Desert and still could hear it. Maybe a high voltage problem some were or solar noise, I just don't know.

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
 
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