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![]() "Jack Painter" wrote in message news:h0cVd.37530$%U2.35335@lakeread01... wrote About 15 years ago we hasd a nasty ice storm. Knocked out the AC mains, telephone, and cable TV for 3 days. I was amazed at how quite it got. I was operating from a couple of GellCells, kept charged off by a a small PV (solar cell) array. Other then freezing my but off, it was great fun. Since I normally only go on camping/mine DX-epditions in the late summer and early fall, it was much wquiter at home then I had ever exeprienced in the deep woods. I could hear the igniton noise from the highway about 1 mile away! I had very mixed feelings when they brought our power back on. I was tired of the cold, but reslly enjoyed the quite. I have done all that I can to reduce the RFI that I produce. I have bypassed all the AC mains outlets, bypassed teh AC mains where it enteres the breaker box, used lots of RFI suppresion ferrite "beads" on all the active electronics, imporved my ground system as much as I can, and use the best (lowest noise) antenna that I can currently afford. Since I had a glimsp of what true radio quite conditions were, I had the incentive to do what I could. It made a big difference. But, alas it is a far cry from the quite I had for a few days. Given the omnipresent man made electrical noise around most American cities, I suspect that very few of us get to see just how sensitive our receivers really are. Terry Roger that, in Virginia Beach every couple years or so we get a summer week-off from the grid after a hurricane blows by. The reception is phenomenal. I wonder what it would be like in the winter? I've never had that scenario happen for very long; usually for me the power goes out for a while during a thunderstorm, but I'm not inclined to fry my electronics and hook up the big antenna at that time. The two biggest changes I had to clean up noise we move to a house where the electrical and phone lines are underground, and to take the Sat 800 off of the same breaker used by the Dell laptop for work and put it on a separate one. In the case of the Dell, noise coming through the AC/DC transformer was absolutely horrible; my trusty home computer never had that issue. --Mike L. |
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