Wow!!  It's pretty quiet here, a couple TV's in the area wipe out 10 meters 
at night sometimes, but even that's starting to improve, I have no clue why 
it is, but it's starting to. It's only at night and on 15 through 10. For 
the most part though, it's very quiet here.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: Diode Mod for TS2000S


> Hi.
>
> They are a lot more than weak birdies here and I'm pretty sure they are
> being radiated from neighboring houses based upon signal strengths on my
> Sony portable as I'm walking around the house and yard.  I've found that
> you can often tell a bit by collapsing the antenna and rolling the RF Gain
> back and noting where the signal is strong enough to be heard anyway.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 07:04 PM 3/22/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi Lou,
>>I'm always fighting interferences of one kind or another around here too.
>>But, I'm not giving up on HF radio.  Every time I buy a new electronic
>>gizmo, the new switching power plug presents me with another weak birdie,
>>Fortunately,  the birdies and other interference noises are usually just
>>weak background noise here and I do hope that it stays that way!
>>73
>>Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>>Skype name:  bobtinn
>>Live Long and Prosper!
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:45 PM
>>Subject: Re: Diode Mod for TS2000S
>>
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>After doing some looking around on the HF bands, I came to a sudden
>>realization that trying to get a quiet receiver on these bands is
>>pointless.  Regardless of how good my receiver is, I live in a city, and
>>generally mostly what I am hearing all over the HF spectrum is Part 15
>>devices.  In theory, I have the right to be free from interference by 
>>these
>>devices, but any urban dweller probably knows that they win by their sheer
>>numbers because it is impossible to track all of them down.  I am finding
>>that the MW and HF spectrum is ruled by computer hash, miscellaneous
>>digital clock pulses, and video garbage, sometimes registering up to 
>>S9+220
>>DB, and generally not less than S7.
>>
>>I came to the conclusion after looking over the situation that I'm not
>>spending one more dime on anything below 50 MHz.
>>
>>73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>>
>>Louis Kim Kline
>>A.R.S. K2LKK
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>>
>>
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