Re: Topband: Sked

2015-10-27 Thread Gena Kolmakov
Hi Marco Just back home from long treep You can found me in ON4KST chat and make sked On 22 October 2015 at 20:44, Marco Quijada wrote: > Hello: > Tonight i will be on the air in 80 meters all night :-) also if > someone need sked on 160 please fell to free to make

Topband: Re. RFI - lots of it

2015-10-27 Thread Kriss A Kliegle
We had the opposite problem here in NH. The aluminum wires are held to the insulators with aluminum wire wraps. The wraps would arc when dry conditions existed. Morning dew or rain would make it quiet. Dry days in winter would be the worst, the noise would wipe out AM,HF, and weak FM band

Re: Topband: Re. RFI - lots of it

2015-10-27 Thread Tim Shoppa
I find the same at my QTH - utility RFI is worst in cold dry weather and goes away in damp or warm weather. Tim N3QE On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, Kriss A Kliegle wrote: > We had the opposite problem here in NH. The aluminum wires are held to the > insulators with

Re: Topband: Re. RFI - lots of it

2015-10-27 Thread Tom W8JI
I forgot I had this up with pictures. http://www.w8ji.com/power_line_noise.htm _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Re. RFI - lots of it

2015-10-27 Thread Tom W8JI
Rain on the way so will know for sure what conditions are best. Hopefully not the same as Tim or Kriss since this is big Lake effect snow country although you'd think snow would melt at an arcing area. We are expecting 60mph winds tomorrow and rain. Regardless, power company is sending someone

Re: Topband: Re. RFI - lots of it

2015-10-27 Thread Jim Murray via Topband
Rain on the way so will know for sure what conditions are best.  Hopefully not the same as Tim or Kriss since this is big Lake effect snow country although you'd think snow would melt at an arcing area.  We are expecting 60mph winds tomorrow and rain.    Regardless, power company is sending

Re: Topband: RFI - lots of it

2015-10-27 Thread Jim Murray via Topband
Thanks Tom.  I think I have it narrowed down with a portable.  The line going to our home is spliced to the main line along with another line going to a building across the highway. At that spot there is a ball of wires with some kind of what appears to be a metal fixture (clamp etc.).  Just