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Messed-Up Radials Can Generate Spurious Emissions
Cleaning up the messed-up
radials ended the appearance of the NSS signals in the AM broadcast band, thus concluding an interesting journey. ......................... I think a lot of the MW garbage I receive on 160m, etc, is generated much the same way. I've even seen people say that semi corroded stranded copper wire, even insulated can cause problems like that. And...I've been seeing stronger and stronger MW energy here every year it seems... I'm starting to wonder if the standed wire theory may not be too far fetched, as most all my wire is stranded, and most is getting some age on it. I also seen to notice even the water heater or pipes seem to generate spurious MW energy.. Been driving me crazy the last few years, and seems to be slowly getting worse. Not to mention all the other sources of trouble like fences, guy wires, bad connections, etc. I don't doubt bad radials could cause that for a minute...I've seen things like that around here in mildew city from all kinds of bad connections.. Once had a bad "rf in the shack" problem...Turned out to be nothing more than corroded/rusted balun hardware at the antenna feedpoint. Cleaned that up, bingo, all gone. MK |
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