Jack Painter wrote:

"Ken Wilson" wrote in message
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The Hum is there @ 1440 on 13.655. The distortion went away around 1418.
The
Hum at that time was more of a Buzz than a Hum.
Must just be my crappy receivers G

73, Ken


At 1700 EDT I'm getting too many stronger stations on both sides to hear
13655 well.

RCI is not currently using 13655 at 1700 EDT (2100 GMT).

dxAce

dxAce wrote:

Jack Painter wrote:

"Ken Wilson" wrote in message
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The Hum is there @ 1440 on 13.655. The distortion went away around 1418.
The
Hum at that time was more of a Buzz than a Hum.
Must just be my crappy receivers G

73, Ken


At 1700 EDT I'm getting too many stronger stations on both sides to hear
13655 well.

RCI is not currently using 13655 at 1700 EDT (2100 GMT).

Try 17765.



dxAce

"dxAce" wrote in message
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RCI is not currently using 13655 at 1700 EDT (2100 GMT).

Try 17765.

S9+ w/ 10db+30db attenuation there. I have rarely seen the s-meter in the
red with all the attenuation I can add. What in the world is their power?

Jack

Jack Painter wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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RCI is not currently using 13655 at 1700 EDT (2100 GMT).

Try 17765.

S9+ w/ 10db+30db attenuation there. I have rarely seen the s-meter in the
red with all the attenuation I can add. What in the world is their power?

Most likely 250 kw. They have at least 6 250 kw transmitters at Sackville,
amongst other lesser power units (100 kw).

dxAce

uncle arnie wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:14 am -0600 UTC, Ken Wilson
posted: %MM

What are you listening with?
--

I was using a Ten-Tec RX340 & a Kenwood R-5000. Same results from both. No I
did not have the noise blanker on. No Hum on the other stations either.

I find it hard to believe I am the only one who thinks their transmitter
quality stinks. Reminds me of one of the religious stations on the lower
bands. HHHHHUUUUUMMMMMM.

Ken KG4BIG

Ken Wilson wrote:

uncle arnie wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:14 am -0600 UTC, Ken Wilson
posted: %MM

What are you listening with?
--

I was using a Ten-Tec RX340 & a Kenwood R-5000. Same results from both. No I
did not have the noise blanker on. No Hum on the other stations either.

I find it hard to believe I am the only one who thinks their transmitter
quality stinks.

I did hear some hum Ken, but overall it did not sound too bad at all. And that
was on the R8, R8B, two of em at the moment, and the R7.

I was listening on 17765 in the previous hour for a bit also and didn't notice
anything abnormal.

dxAce

In article ,
"Ken Wilson" wrote:

Am I the only one who is getting ready to stop listening to RCanadaI because
of the horrible broadcast quality. Hum is terrible & audio is distorted.
13.655 mhz is strongest here in KY but that means I hear more Hum.

I really enjoy Vinyl Cafe & Qirks / Quarks but I hate the audio .

That's odd as they normally sound good here with no hum.

Sometimes noise on the AC power can get into the antenna-radio system
and mess up certain frequencies. I have had power strips with built in
filters that have caused problems instead of making things better.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Telamon wrote in message

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That's odd as they normally sound good here with no hum.

Sometimes noise on the AC power can get into the antenna-radio system
and mess up certain frequencies. I have had power strips with built in
filters that have caused problems instead of making things better.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Maybe the problem is here on my end. The Hum was on all 3 freq.
9.515....13.655....& 17.800. Also I don't hear it on any other
stations...well other than the ones I mentioned before.

Oh well enough of that I guess.

73 es DX Ken

In article ,
"Ken Wilson" wrote:

Telamon wrote in message

...
That's odd as they normally sound good here with no hum.

Sometimes noise on the AC power can get into the antenna-radio system
and mess up certain frequencies. I have had power strips with built in
filters that have caused problems instead of making things better.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Maybe the problem is here on my end. The Hum was on all 3 freq.
9.515....13.655....& 17.800. Also I don't hear it on any other
stations...well other than the ones I mentioned before.

Oh well enough of that I guess.

I encourage you to look into it a little more. No sense letting
something like this spoil your listening. If you have a decent portable
radio (on batteries of course) you could check if the hum is heard on
the portable. If it is then it's real. If not then is could be an
interaction of the AC power, your radio and antenna. I have had this
happen only on specific frequencies with the radio plugged into a
problem AC power strip filter.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

The usual hum source is nonbypassed diodes in the wall wart, which
provide a nice RF ground when they conduct and none when they don't,
thus changing the antenna system 120 times a second when there's an
instant that they're all not conducting at once.

Even if you ground the radio yourself, they still change the antenna
system, though usually it matters less the more grounded the radio is.

One test is whether the hum changes if you hold a hand on the radio,
improving its RF ground a bit.

The fix is a wall wart with bypassed diodes, or NiMH batteries, which
are good enough these days so you don't really need the wall wart.
Just swap a battery set when needed.
--
Ron Hardin


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