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November 6th 03, 01:29 PM

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says...
I've been tuning across HF and I just realized that the weird noises
that are obscuring 6055 are EVERYWHERE, on every band, not only on my
FRG8800 but also my DX396 (battery operated/whip antenna, so it's not
line noise). I turned off and unplugged everything I could think of,
from air cleaners to lights to computer equipment and it's still there.

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I"ve no idea of your physical environment, but I'd try using the
DX396 on batteries as a direction finder to see if you can locate the
source. Try it first with a strong local MW station to get a feel for
the directional characteristics of the DX396. Usually if you collapse
the whip antenna there is a ferrite stick inside which gives a pretty
clear null off the flat side of the radio. Then try to use it to find
the direction of the noise source by listening and nulling from a couple
different locations.
I had this same problem a couple years ago and used a portable to
trace the problem to an insulator on the power companys transmission
line a couple hundred yards from my house which was visably arcing. A
fire danger as well as RF garbage source! When I called the power co.
and reported the arc they sent out a crew in just a couple of hours who
repaired the transmission line and solved the noise problem.

73 KC2LVQ