Richard,

It sounds as though you have some noise in the neighborhood.

Try walking around your block with a portable radio. Check the AM band, and various short wave bands if you have a portable SW receiver available.

When you get an idea of where the noise is peaking, call the power company.

Your radio won't isolate the exact source, but, the power company should have access to equipment which will do that, and to the people who will know how to use it.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Fiorello 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:22 PM
  Subject: speaking of antennas


  Hi;
  Just wonder if anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of.  Spent a 
  significant amount of time getting help putting this hf9v vertical up 
  and the noise level this winter has been around s7.  Doesn't make you 
  want to turn the radio on.  The noise blanker has a nominal effect. 
  Short of taking the thing down and trying something else I wonder if 
  anyone has any exciting ideas?  I don't think it was that bad last 
  summer but didn't have the synthesizer set to give me a reading.  I'm 
  hoping something is running that generates the noise such as a furnace 
  that I won't have to deal with in the summer.  If anyone says I was 
  murdered it would be because I mentioned a new qth to the xyl.
  -- 
  richard