Hi all, Talking about man made noise I would like to point at the NCC-1 from DXE. It is a noise cancelling unit/Phasing unit which is way better than anything else on the market. I use it together with a Hi Z RX 4sq and some short beverages. 73 Len SM7BIC
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För Arthur Delibert Skickat: den 21 april 2016 00:00 Till: topband@contesting.com Ämne: Re: Topband: The band sans noise You don't need to be in the sticks to put up one or two pennants and get a lot of mileage out of them. I have a fairly small suburban back yard; the other houses are pretty close, and they seem to have every kind of RF noise-maker imaginable. Based on where the trees are, I put up two pennants, one facing east and one facing northwest, each with a DX Engineering pre-amp at the antenna. They do a very good job of knocking down the noise level, and the pre-amps produce very little in the way of AM BCB mixing products. I'd like to give you A/B comparisons with other receiving antennas, but I took them down a long time ago, because they just weren't cutting it. Art Delibert, KB3FJO > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:36:26 -0500 > From: ranchoro...@gmail.com > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: The band sans noise > > >Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect! > > It's a losing battle. You can't stop the imported appliance tsunami > that has been going on for years, or consumers buying them and > bringing them home and using them. You can run around and try, good > luck with that, and invest hours and days of your ham hobby time on > that instead of what is enjoyable with your remaining years, and maybe > have a few successes, out of many slammed doors, but for every success > there will be 10 more gadgets coming to a house near you and getting > fired up. That ship has sailed--the FCC in the U.S. has washed their > hands pretty much, similar to their abandonment of CB enforcement. > Small government and unfettered commerce have won and to be clear, I > am not generally opposed to small gov't and commerce, but in this case > hams took a hit and that's life. > > It pays to focus on what you CAN control, which is the stuff on your > property, and RF coming on to your property. Unless you are not tied > to a job and can move (the only really effective solution) you have to > break out the wallet and spend some doe re mi on a pair of Pixel Loop > antennas and one of the DX Engineering phasing boxes. If you have > room for anything bigger and farther apart like Flags, Pennants, > beverages and so on, you are probably already in the sticks and don't > have as much of a problem. > > 73 > > Rob > K5UJ > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband