Guy Slightly OT, but how do you deal with re-radiation from your inverted L? I'm about to erect one of your inverted L on FCP and my rx loops are about 50m away in the other corner of the field. Is that far enough? David G3UNA/G6CP
> On 24 July 2019 at 07:13 Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I gotta agree with Rob. An inverted L aerial wire will hear ALL the noise > that is around. Mine sure does. RX antenna will help enormously if there is > a place to put one that does not get the noise second hand off the L. Not > enough room? A bit complicated, but "repeated" noise off the L can be dealt > with. > > The worst noises around here heard on my L were all repaired by the power > company. The nastiest noise was very hard to find, I actually never "found" > it by looking for it. Noise turned out to be from a bad splice in an > underground 13 kV cable going from the 13 kV delta overhead out on US 64 to > the transformer for my eastern neighbor and next house over. It would come > and go with extended cold weather, but never would correlate to sunlight or > darkness. I would hear it next to my transformer walking around with my > battery K2 and a rubber ducky. It would never locate to up on a pole (only > power noise that didn't). > > Finally the splice hard-arced, exploding the fuse up on the pole for the > neighbor's 13 kV feed, and taking those two houses off the grid. The noise > went away with the cannon shot noise. Blessed quiet on 160 and 80. I had > put up with that for almost four years. > > In the end, Duke Energy completely reran his AND my buried 13kV lines, and > replaced his transformer. 35 years in the ground, 35 year old cable design > and materials, and deficient in THEIR opinion. Was really fun to watch them > use this super-neat burrowing setup that went right UNDER the woods and the > creek (whole other story). Now I can hear the lesser noises on my L from > all over Apex and Cary :>) Need RX antenna for sure. That way I don't have > to listen to the Cary, NC noise (NE) at the same time as the generally > closer and louder Apex, NC noise (S, SE). > > 73, Guy K2AV > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 9:37 AM Rob Atkinson <ranchoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Over past few months, I have picked up an S5-S7 noise signature on my TB > > inv > > > L antenna with K2AV FCP system. > > > > I would not use an inverted L for receiving. Unusable for rx at my > > QTH but FB for transmitting. > > > > 73 > > Rob > > K5UJ > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > > Reflector > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector