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January 13th 04, 01:38 AM
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Noise in Ford F-150
Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150
pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off  -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 |
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January 13th 04, 01:40 AM
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Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 |
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January 14th 04, 12:07 AM
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(Randy Chavis) wrote in message ...
Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW |
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January 14th 04, 12:21 AM
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(Randy Chavis) wrote in message ... Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW Well, I guess it is who you know..all the ones that I know that have been fixed here have bought thier cars or trucks new and Ford was glad to help them. They also knew ahead of time that the buyes were hams and planed on installing radios in the cars or trucks..... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 |
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January 14th 04, 10:43 PM
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Do you know if Ford has addressed this in newer trucks... or is it STILL
a problem? Randy Chavis wrote: (Randy Chavis) wrote in message ... Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW Well, I guess it is who you know..all the ones that I know that have been fixed here have bought thier cars or trucks new and Ford was glad to help them. They also knew ahead of time that the buyes were hams and planed on installing radios in the cars or trucks..... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 |
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January 14th 04, 10:43 PM
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Do you know if Ford has addressed this in newer trucks... or is it STILL
a problem? Randy Chavis wrote: (Randy Chavis) wrote in message ... Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW Well, I guess it is who you know..all the ones that I know that have been fixed here have bought thier cars or trucks new and Ford was glad to help them. They also knew ahead of time that the buyes were hams and planed on installing radios in the cars or trucks..... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 |
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#8
January 14th 04, 12:52 AM
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wrote: Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW Tell the dealer to look up Ford's technical service bulletin TSB 93-15-6 and/or TSB 95-11-3 (I believe the latter is an updated version of the former). This describes the problem, identifies the Ford filter part which is to be installed inside the fuel tank on the pump wiring, and describes the procedure. This is reportedly _not_ a customer-installable fix. As it involves removing the fuel pump from the tank itself, and modifying wiring in this area, I'm not too surprised that Ford would be very reluctant to encourage vehicle owners to attempt this on their own. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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#9
January 14th 04, 01:03 AM
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On 13 Jan 2004 16:07:15 -0800, wrote:
(Randy Chavis) wrote in message ... Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW Randy, Ford has had a service bulletin out for several models about the fuel pump noise. http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/W1MG.pdf have a look at the url, it tells about your fuel pump noise even gives diagrams and suggested time to install the filter for a qualfied mechanic. I found out about it when my 1996 Ford Ranger was still under original factory warranty. The ford dealer added a fuel pump electrical filter to the fuel pump in the fuel tank. Can't say it did a whole lot of good though, but is better than it was before they added the filter. Who makes the coaxial caps you used ? Gary K8IZ Washington State Resident Registered Linux User # 312991 |
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January 14th 04, 12:21 AM
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(Randy Chavis) wrote in message ... Anybody have any ideas to lower noise in my FT-857 mounted in my F-150 pickup? S7-S9 noise (engine running, with NB ON) on 17M (Only band I've tried on HF yet). Antenna is an Outbacker mounted on a mount I welded up for my receiver hitch and puts the base of the antenna at about roof level. Quiet as a mouse when truck is shut off. Go figure...hard to be "mobile" with the engine off -- Scott N0EDV Gotta Fly or Gonna Die http://corbenflyer.tripod.com Building RV-4 you will find the problem in the fuel pump..Ford had a big porblem with it not being grounded.They have a fix for it but you will have to talk to a Ford tech to find it and buy it from them.... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 Get ready to remove the tank,pump is inside..run the pump power through a pair of coax caps (about .1 to .25 OK ) mount them directly at the pump terminals on the tank..that will get about 90% of the noise..ground the tail pipe at the back bumper ,good braid ground. None of the Ford dealers that I contacted wanted to talk about the problem,never heard of it .. Good luck W4PQW Well, I guess it is who you know..all the ones that I know that have been fixed here have bought thier cars or trucks new and Ford was glad to help them. They also knew ahead of time that the buyes were hams and planed on installing radios in the cars or trucks..... Randy ARS: WB4UNA Randy Chavis 247 Goff Court West Columbia S.C. 29172 |
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