On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Mike WA8BXN <hubb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I decided to cut off all power to the house, ran the 1500 on battery, and > used a laptop on its own battery. Still was able to quickly find some of > the > hills on the panadaptor. > > I am thinking of putting a dummy load where my vertical is at the end of > the > feedline and see if I have any hills that way. If they go away then they > are > coming from antenna pickup and nothing in the shack. > Good idea. > > Anyone have any thoughts these things could be coming from cosmic sources? > Planetary and galactic noise sources tend to be pretty weak. I think that, while it may be a possibility, it is not very likely. The most likely sources are terrestrial and probably local to your QTH. But I have found Arcturan spacecraft to be pretty noisy emitters. The problem is, they disguise their emissions to make them look like a run-of-the-mill switching power supply so no one will pay any attention. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 br...@lloyd.com +1.767.617.1365 (Dominica) +1.931.492.6776 (USA) (+1.931.4.WB6RQN) _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
