Ron G wrote:
Leonard Martin wrote in message
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This is masterful! There's absolutely no way I can tell if it's a put-on
or not.

At the risk of looking like an idiot, I'll give a serious answer: That
is obviously a local ham (or anyone else owning a device capable of
transmitting morse codeIwhose signal is being picked up by your computer
or its speakers, or the wiring between them.

Leonard

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--Flannery O'Connor


No, I couldn't ever make one like this one up.

I'm seriously looking for (reasonable) input.

I'm not at all paranoid. :-)
'Couldn't be, and be retired as VP Eng after 27 years, plus being an expert
witness (corporate, design), around the US, multiple corporate lawsuits.
Never worked so damned hard in my whole life! Glad I'm retired!

Anyhoo, I'll be trying out the tinfoil and shielding ideas.
I do have a land line phone literally right next to my computer, and the
same land line had 30 Mhz portables connected to it in other rooms, although
they are hung on the base stations usually.

The guy behind me is such a basket case, that I put absolutely nothing past
him. Other neighbors stay away from him also, like the plague.

I would be happy to find it is something simple and innoculous, like a
telephone line.

BTW, I remember when I was 16, repairing TV's in the late 50's, neighbors
would call me up and bitch that I must be using ham equipment.
I had no Ham equipment, I just fixed TV's.
Many times I was away for the weekend 25 miles away!
So I hate to see Hams nailed.
I understand about TV manufacturers eliminating TV shielding from the 1960's
on, and it is not a Ham's fault when it nails TV.
It's cheap TV design. No shielding, like they used to do.

Oh, and it just did the "dit---etc---etc" as I was just typing the last
sentence.

Thanks for any further ideas.

Thanks----
Ron


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One of the computers in my office had an integrated sound card, and
periodically, it would start a variable rate ch ch ch ticking sound- for
a couple seconds, and then it would go away - happened once or twice
most days. That building was practically a Faraday cage - so I'm sure
it was internal to the computer.

One of the computers in my office had an integrated sound card, and
periodically, it would start a variable rate ch ch ch ticking sound- for
a couple seconds, and then it would go away - happened once or twice
most days. That building was practically a Faraday cage - so I'm sure
it was internal to the computer.

Ahhhh yes, how well I remember building Faraday cages when I worked in a
Research Lab. :-)

I would orient it on a wooden step-ladder, midway between floor and ceiling,
then turn and tilt until I could neutralize out the electrostatic field of
the earth.

Then, the small electronic object I had inside the Cage, could be tested
without an interfering quiescent electrostatic field.

Best----
Ron


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In article , "Ron G"
wrote:

One of the computers in my office had an integrated sound card, and
periodically, it would start a variable rate ch ch ch ticking sound- for
a couple seconds, and then it would go away - happened once or twice
most days. That building was practically a Faraday cage - so I'm sure
it was internal to the computer.

Ahhhh yes, how well I remember building Faraday cages when I worked in a
Research Lab. :-)

I would orient it on a wooden step-ladder, midway between floor and ceiling,
then turn and tilt until I could neutralize out the electrostatic field of
the earth.

Then, the small electronic object I had inside the Cage, could be tested
without an interfering quiescent electrostatic field.

I don't understand the orientation part of the post. A Faraday cage is
just an electrostatic shield and has nothing to do with the earth¹s
magnetic field.

Your cage must have been more than a Faraday cage.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

It was indeed for the Earth's electrostatic field.
It has a "direction", and also, depending on what metallic objects are
nearby (5 or 10 feet away), that distort the direction of the field.
We designed a standard Farady cage (an Eng Research group of about 50 Phd's,
etc) with multiple coils epoxied on a "bakelite type" box. Then we sliced
the wires along ones side so there were no continuous loops, and ran a
ground on all the "broken" coil loops on the opposite side.

Possibly we were nulling out other electrostatic sources at the same time,
but it was designed to null out the Earth's electrostatic (not maagnetic)
field.

I did very "low level micro" type measurements inside it for 10 years.
Without the shield, it would have been impossible, the Earth's electrostatic
field was too great.

This was in a pure research setting, really eye-opener stuff. I loved that
type of research totally.

Best---
Ron



Telamon wrote in message
...
In article , "Ron G"
wrote:

One of the computers in my office had an integrated sound card, and
periodically, it would start a variable rate ch ch ch ticking sound-
for
a couple seconds, and then it would go away - happened once or twice
most days. That building was practically a Faraday cage - so I'm sure
it was internal to the computer.

Ahhhh yes, how well I remember building Faraday cages when I worked in a
Research Lab. :-)

I would orient it on a wooden step-ladder, midway between floor and
ceiling,
then turn and tilt until I could neutralize out the electrostatic field
of
the earth.

Then, the small electronic object I had inside the Cage, could be tested
without an interfering quiescent electrostatic field.

I don't understand the orientation part of the post. A Faraday cage is
just an electrostatic shield and has nothing to do with the earth¹s
magnetic field.

Your cage must have been more than a Faraday cage.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California


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In article , "Ron G"
wrote:

It was indeed for the Earth's electrostatic field. It has a
"direction", and also, depending on what metallic objects are nearby
(5 or 10 feet away), that distort the direction of the field. We
designed a standard Farady cage (an Eng Research group of about 50
Phd's, etc) with multiple coils epoxied on a "bakelite type" box.
Then we sliced the wires along ones side so there were no continuous
loops, and ran a ground on all the "broken" coil loops on the
opposite side.

Possibly we were nulling out other electrostatic sources at the same
time, but it was designed to null out the Earth's electrostatic (not
maagnetic) field.

I did very "low level micro" type measurements inside it for 10
years. Without the shield, it would have been impossible, the Earth's
electrostatic field was too great.

This was in a pure research setting, really eye-opener stuff. I loved
that type of research totally.

Well that is interesting. I suppose the stream of charged particles
from the Sun that make it to earth along with any intergalactic
currents charge the earth to some potential.

Was there an average background level? I suppose the level moves around
due to Sun activity.


Telamon wrote in message
...
In article , "Ron G"
wrote:

One of the computers in my office had an integrated sound card,
and periodically, it would start a variable rate ch ch ch
ticking sound-
for
a couple seconds, and then it would go away - happened once or
twice most days. That building was practically a Faraday cage
- so I'm sure it was internal to the computer.

Ahhhh yes, how well I remember building Faraday cages when I
worked in a Research Lab. :-)

I would orient it on a wooden step-ladder, midway between floor
and ceiling, then turn and tilt until I could neutralize out the
electrostatic field of the earth.

Then, the small electronic object I had inside the Cage, could be
tested without an interfering quiescent electrostatic field.

I don't understand the orientation part of the post. A Faraday cage
is just an electrostatic shield and has nothing to do with the
earth¹s magnetic field.

Your cage must have been more than a Faraday cage.

-- Telamon Ventura, California


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Telamon
Ventura, California