I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my location.
On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but on 75 meters I
can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to reduce 75
meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

Stan
AH6JR

Sun Tzu wrote in
news:_rCdndMY26mGEqLYnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net:

I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my
location. On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but
on 75 meters I can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to
reduce 75 meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

You might try using a vertical whip for the ANC-4. I use the built-in one
on my MFJ-1026. Even so, you may just be experiencing general ionospheric
noise at that level if your antenna is fairly good.

Is your QTH urban or rural? Here in urban downtown Chilliwack, BC, I get a
lot of noise sources and, of course, the 1026 can really only take out the
loudest single source.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

Dave Oldridge wrote:

Sun Tzu wrote in
news:_rCdndMY26mGEqLYnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net:

I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my
location. On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but
on 75 meters I can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to
reduce 75 meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

You might try using a vertical whip for the ANC-4. I use the built-in one
on my MFJ-1026. Even so, you may just be experiencing general ionospheric
noise at that level if your antenna is fairly good.

Is your QTH urban or rural? Here in urban downtown Chilliwack, BC, I get
a lot of noise sources and, of course, the 1026 can really only take out
the loudest single source.




I guess its residential on 1/3 of an acre lots. Not real tight.
But the utilities are above ground and that probably doesnt help.

In article ,
Sun Tzu wrote:

Dave Oldridge wrote:

Sun Tzu wrote in
news:_rCdndMY26mGEqLYnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net:

I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my
location. On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but
on 75 meters I can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to
reduce 75 meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

You might try using a vertical whip for the ANC-4. I use the built-in one
on my MFJ-1026. Even so, you may just be experiencing general ionospheric
noise at that level if your antenna is fairly good.

Is your QTH urban or rural? Here in urban downtown Chilliwack, BC, I get
a lot of noise sources and, of course, the 1026 can really only take out
the loudest single source.




I guess its residential on 1/3 of an acre lots. Not real tight.
But the utilities are above ground and that probably doesnt help.

not sure if anyone realizes this but i've noticed that the adj controls
can sometimes be very very sensitive sometimes i've found that a hair
kills the noise and if you blinked at that moment you missed it

dunno maybe it's just me

ml wrote:

In article ,
Sun Tzu wrote:

Dave Oldridge wrote:

Sun Tzu wrote in
news:_rCdndMY26mGEqLYnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net:

I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my
location. On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but
on 75 meters I can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to
reduce 75 meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

You might try using a vertical whip for the ANC-4. I use the built-in
one
on my MFJ-1026. Even so, you may just be experiencing general
ionospheric noise at that level if your antenna is fairly good.

Is your QTH urban or rural? Here in urban downtown Chilliwack, BC, I
get a lot of noise sources and, of course, the 1026 can really only
take out the loudest single source.




I guess its residential on 1/3 of an acre lots. Not real tight.
But the utilities are above ground and that probably doesnt help.

not sure if anyone realizes this but i've noticed that the adj controls
can sometimes be very very sensitive sometimes i've found that a hair
kills the noise and if you blinked at that moment you missed it

dunno maybe it's just me

maybe you have a bad or dirty control? OR as Jan wrote previously the
variable resistor is not linear and the abrupt change you see it due to the
variable resistor.

I guess its residential on 1/3 of an acre lots. Not real tight.
But the utilities are above ground and that probably doesnt help.

not sure if anyone realizes this but i've noticed that the adj controls
can sometimes be very very sensitive sometimes i've found that a hair
kills the noise and if you blinked at that moment you missed it

dunno maybe it's just me

maybe you have a bad or dirty control? OR as Jan wrote previously the
variable resistor is not linear and the abrupt change you see it due to the
variable resistor.

the control is good, it is on all the units prob a non linear
pot(resistor) linear taper? not audio taper or what ever but they all
seem to work like that

on certain kinds of noise it sure works well

ml

Reading the schematics it is possible that the ANC-4 does not
fully cover the 360 degrees phase shift, just like the MFJ-1025.
But it is also possible that you experience more than one noise
source on 75 mtrs. A noise canceller (with two inputs/antennas)
can cancel only one noise source.

I have written about noise cancelling on my site, e.g.:
http://www.pa0sim.nl/Phaser%2080%20-%2010%20meters.htm
May be it can help.

73 es gl de Jan PA0SIM


"Dave Oldridge" schreef in bericht
9...
Sun Tzu wrote in
news:_rCdndMY26mGEqLYnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net:

I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my
location. On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but
on 75 meters I can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to
reduce 75 meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

You might try using a vertical whip for the ANC-4. I use the built-in one
on my MFJ-1026. Even so, you may just be experiencing general ionospheric
noise at that level if your antenna is fairly good.

Is your QTH urban or rural? Here in urban downtown Chilliwack, BC, I get
a
lot of noise sources and, of course, the 1026 can really only take out the
loudest single source.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

Jan Simons PA0SIM wrote:

Reading the schematics it is possible that the ANC-4 does not
fully cover the 360 degrees phase shift, just like the MFJ-1025.
But it is also possible that you experience more than one noise
source on 75 mtrs. A noise canceller (with two inputs/antennas)
can cancel only one noise source.

I have written about noise cancelling on my site, e.g.:
http://www.pa0sim.nl/Phaser%2080%20-%2010%20meters.htm
May be it can help.

73 es gl de Jan PA0SIM


Nice website, have you considered modifying the existing units (MFJ & ANC)
to do what you have shown? Your idea would make either of these 2 units much
better.

By the way, I took the sense antenna which is a short dipole and I made one
leg vertical and the other horizontal. Now I have almost no noise on 75
meters. I haqve been playing around with this for awhile and it was either
all vertical or all horizontal. Now with this configuration the weak
signals can be heard.


Stan
AH6JR




"Dave Oldridge" schreef in bericht
9...
Sun Tzu wrote in
news:_rCdndMY26mGEqLYnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@hawaiiantel. net:

I use an Timewave ANC-4 to reduce noise on the low bands at my
location. On 40 & 160 meters I can reduce the noise almost to S1, but
on 75 meters I can only reduce it to S4-5.
I use a noise sense antenna which is a dipole 4ft on each side about 4
inches off the ground and parallel to the power and telephone lines.
Anyone have one of these units and having any ideas I might try to
reduce 75 meters to a lower S-meter reading?

All my low band antennas are verticals.

You might try using a vertical whip for the ANC-4. I use the built-in
one
on my MFJ-1026. Even so, you may just be experiencing general
ionospheric noise at that level if your antenna is fairly good.

Is your QTH urban or rural? Here in urban downtown Chilliwack, BC, I get
a
lot of noise sources and, of course, the 1026 can really only take out
the loudest single source.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

"Sun Tzu" schreef in bericht
...
Jan Simons PA0SIM wrote:

Reading the schematics it is possible that the ANC-4 does not
fully cover the 360 degrees phase shift, just like the MFJ-1025.
But it is also possible that you experience more than one noise
source on 75 mtrs. A noise canceller (with two inputs/antennas)
can cancel only one noise source.

I have written about noise cancelling on my site, e.g.:
http://www.pa0sim.nl/Phaser%2080%20-%2010%20meters.htm
May be it can help.

73 es gl de Jan PA0SIM


Nice website, have you considered modifying the existing units (MFJ &
ANC)
to do what you have shown? Your idea would make either of these 2 units
much
better.

By the way, I took the sense antenna which is a short dipole and I made
one
leg vertical and the other horizontal. Now I have almost no noise on 75
meters. I haqve been playing around with this for awhile and it was either
all vertical or all horizontal. Now with this configuration the weak
signals can be heard.


Stan
AH6JR


Hi Stan,
I have considered it, but sometimes it is easier and better to start fresh.
First question is always: what phaser/noise canceller do you really want?
What do you expect from it?
Looking at the design of the MFJ-1025, it would take to much mods to
realize my needs.

When one of the antennas doesn´t hear the noise source, you don´t need
a phaser. But of course that antenna still has to hear your wanted signals.
Using a small loop antenna it is sometimes possible to null the noise
source.
I think playing with a short dipole, as you did, is the same as nulling with
small loops.

73 de Jan PA0SIM

Jan Simons PA0SIM wrote:


"Sun Tzu" schreef in bericht
...
Jan Simons PA0SIM wrote:

Reading the schematics it is possible that the ANC-4 does not
fully cover the 360 degrees phase shift, just like the MFJ-1025.
But it is also possible that you experience more than one noise
source on 75 mtrs. A noise canceller (with two inputs/antennas)
can cancel only one noise source.

I have written about noise cancelling on my site, e.g.:
http://www.pa0sim.nl/Phaser%2080%20-%2010%20meters.htm
May be it can help.

73 es gl de Jan PA0SIM


Nice website, have you considered modifying the existing units (MFJ &
ANC)
to do what you have shown? Your idea would make either of these 2 units
much
better.

By the way, I took the sense antenna which is a short dipole and I made
one
leg vertical and the other horizontal. Now I have almost no noise on 75
meters. I haqve been playing around with this for awhile and it was
either all vertical or all horizontal. Now with this configuration the
weak signals can be heard.


Stan
AH6JR


Hi Stan,
I have considered it, but sometimes it is easier and better to start
fresh. First question is always: what phaser/noise canceller do you really
want? What do you expect from it?
Looking at the design of the MFJ-1025, it would take to much mods to
realize my needs.

When one of the antennas doesn´t hear the noise source, you don´t need
a phaser. But of course that antenna still has to hear your wanted
signals. Using a small loop antenna it is sometimes possible to null the
noise source.
I think playing with a short dipole, as you did, is the same as nulling
with small loops.

73 de Jan PA0SIM


I have the ANC-4 which works well. This new sense antenna is really good, as
I can hear signals down to S-2 on 75 meters. I guess if I had to do it I
would prefer to modify the ANC-4 as its a quality unit, not perfect but it
is built well.

If you would have any ideas as to modifying the ANC-4 I would'nt mind
working with you on this project. But I will leave that one up to you.

Hopefully I will be able to hear you in the contest this weekend on 75
meters!

Good Luck in the contest my friend!