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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