I snowed here yesterday, does that count? ;-) In all seriousness so far we only know that it "comes and goes". We've yet to find a clear pattern of day/night, week day/weekend (it's on an office tower) , hot/cold, wet/dry, etc. yet. We hope to do a bit of a "fox hunt" at the sight later this spring.
73, Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe" <k1ike_m...@snet.net> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Interference from local 600 kHz radio station. > There was a 6 meter repeater here in Connecticut that was receiving > interference from an AM station several states away that was > broadcasting on 1000KHz. It only occurred in the nighttime. (The 6 > meter repeater was on a 1MHz split). They narrowed it down to something > on the 21+ towers that are on the site, but never found it to my > knowledge. It could have been a piece of loose hardware, rusty joint, > bad antenna, etc. If I remember correctly, rain made it go away. This > can be a real bugger of a problem to find. I would look at guy wires or > anything that is long enough to pick up enough signal from your 600KHz > station. Does it happen when it rains? > > 73, Joe, K1ike > > > On 4/25/2010 11:06 PM, lpcoates wrote: >> Hi >> >> We have a local AM radio station on 600 kHz. Their transmitter site is >> about 10 miles from the center of the city. From what I've found on the >> web, they run 25,000 watts during the day and 8,000 watts at night. On >> at least one of our repeaters we're finding that this is mixing with the >> output of repeater to create a phantom signal exactly on the input. >> We're not sure whether the mixing is happening inside the repeater or in >> something in the environment near the repeater. We've confirmed this is >> the source of the problem on one repeter and supect it on another. Has >> anyone had experince with a loacl AM station on 600 kHz? We're looking >> for way to combat the interference. >> >> Thanks >> >> Bruce - VE5BNC >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
