On Jan 4, 1:50*pm, dave wrote:
On 01/05/2011 01:54 PM, bpnjensen wrote:



I have "heard" some tiny flea power stations and have logs and even
QSLs to prove it - but by and large, the noise level is onerous and on
the lower bands loud enough to obscure all but the loudest stations.

I know dang well that if I can get the radio and antenna away from
this crapola - the beach 50 miles away, for example, or out to one of
my astronomy sites - the problems largely disappear. *This
neighborhood is a disaster.

The best thing I can do is get that wire up as high as legally
possible, and then if necessary turn on the attenuators.

Have you considered a remoted receiver? There are free programs to run a
modern transceiver (some rx only) over the web.

No offense, but that sounds like no fun at all :-(