It wasn't the transient kind of noise one expects from nature but rather a
broad and steady high noise floor. There are a good number of gas
processing plants and even some fracking going on up there but nothing
nearby. Kaz you have an SDR so you'll appreciate the noise floor was in the
70's at 6 khz bandwidth!
Today was: "tie onto abandoned fence lines that use wooden posts" day.
Results were underwhelming but not surprising.
...now for an abandoned telephone line somewhere with a strand or two of
wire dangling within reach :-))
Mark Durenberger
On the Road
-----Original Message-----
From: neilkaz
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:19 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America ; DX-IRCA ; DX
@NRC
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception
What kind of noise was it? Perhaps your BOG was aimed into a big T storm
cell a few hundred miles away, although I don't recall any. It's always a
good idea to check on the car rx or to have a portable along to see if they
have the same issues with noise as your DXped antenna.
With my western antennas here in IL, if there are major T-storms in NE,KS or
the Dakotas my noise level will start increasing soon after sunset and can
get to the point that it is unpleasant to DX.
73 KAZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Durenberger Mobile <ma...@durenberger.com>
Sent: May 8, 2013 9:13 AM
To: DX-IRCA <irca@hard-core-dx.com>, "DX @NRC" <a...@nrcdxas.org>
Subject: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception
Upon arrival in the Pawnee National Grasslands (NE Colorado) Monday, we
laid
out 1100 feet of BOG; mostly East-West, on dry ground.
The wire did its predicted job of squelching stuff from the sides (for
example: flamethrower KOA was down in the mud to the point you could hear a
co-channel beat).
But there was an abnormally high amount of broadband noise across the MW
Band...so the job wasn't a success.
Wonder if anyone else had unusual noise problems Monday night...or if it
was
caused by the many gas-well/fracking operations going on nearby.
Mark Durenberger
On the Road
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