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[ridgescan]

MVI_0813.mp4 video by ridgerocker2001 - Photobucket
I have "city" noise and main powerlines running right past my windows.

 

[k9rzz]

Yeah, you're off an hour.

Me: 0000z = 6pm
0300z = 9pm
So, I set my "Users GMT offset: -6" on the database.

Yours should be set to ?

 

[ridgescan]

Yeah, you're off an hour.

Me: 0000z = 6pm
0300z = 9pm
So, I set my "Users GMT offset: -6" on the database.

Yours should be set to ?

How do ya set that damm thing??

 

[k9rzz]

 

[ridgescan]

Yeah I know where it is wise guy I can't set it because my excel isnt set up (I lost the access code and never set it up) so screw it I don't need their stupid ON icon anyway.

 

[k9rzz]

I'd set that to -8 or something. Too late to figure out without my slide rule.

Yeah, that noise on the upper frequencies sounds like video. What if you turn your monitor off? My monitor is pretty noisy, but tolerable. Not all are equal. In my basement shack, I kept swapping out monitors until I found the quietest one. On my old Win98 computers I even had to dig around in the power supplies and put bypass caps in to reduce computer noise. This time, though, I think it's my neighbor. I can see a fluorescent light on in one of her windows. She'll turn it off eventually and I'll see if that's really it. Ages ago, I had a bad power insulator on the power lines and my noise was S9+20! ARGH! I was pulling my hair out, so I called the power company. Two days later my noise was S1. Ahhhhh, bliss. When I'm driving in the mobile, with the big 75 meter whip on the car, I listen to the power line noise and it fades in and out about every 100 ft, then gone. I get so spoiled because if I want to DX from the mobile, I just move! LOL

 

[k9rzz]

I read the database with Open Office. Free. Works great.

 

[ridgescan]

Naw it happens even when all my TVs and computer are off. I have power poles not 20 feet from my windows and I live on a main route and there's cable TV lines running by me too-and I am sure they have signal amps and one is nearby. God only knows what all that is doing to me.

 

[scanchs]

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I'll be sitting here staring at a useless rig while a crow poops on my antenna.
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I have "city" noise and main powerlines running right past my windows.

ridgescan,

Hey, maybe if you hosed that crow poop off your antenna once in awhile, it might not be so noisy...

ScanCHS

 

[k9rzz]

9450khz 1200z s/on Sounds like WYFR in Mandarin. Very fluttery so probably from China or that part of world. Not on the spreadsheet at all.

Ridge: With that noisy location, try a loop antenna sometime. Something quick and easy like a 20 feet of wire simply fed with coax. Just to see if it's quieter. If it works, great ... make it permanent. Doesn't work? Not much time invested.

 

[a29zuk]

Before leaving for work this morning Radio New Zealand was booming in on 9765 at 0930z. They have the new schedule for Nov. 2010 to March 2011 on their website.

 

[ridgescan]

ridgescan,

Hey, maybe if you hosed that crow poop off your antenna once in awhile, it might not be so noisy...
ScanCHS

Ima git that bastidd-Ima wait till he perches on the wire then it's 110 volts up the coax no more poop just black feathers!

9450khz 1200z s/on Sounds like WYFR in Mandarin. Very fluttery so probably from China or that part of world. Not on the spreadsheet at all.

Ridge: With that noisy location, try a loop antenna sometime. Something quick and easy like a 20 feet of wire simply fed with coax. Just to see if it's quieter. If it works, great ... make it permanent. Doesn't work? Not much time invested.

Before leaving for work this morning Radio New Zealand was booming in on 9765 at 0930z. They have the new schedule for Nov. 2010 to March 2011 on their website.

NICE morning hauls guys-starting the day right I say

 

[mojavedxer]

Naw it happens even when all my TVs and computer are off. I have power poles not 20 feet from my windows and I live on a main route and there's cable TV lines running by me too-and I am sure they have signal amps and one is nearby. God only knows what all that is doing to me.

I here you brother. I am apartment bound and the radio room is 20' from the the main power/phone/cable lines. Also my neighbors plasma tv kills everything when its running. I played around wih a ANC -4 with no luck. I would like to mess with a Wellbrook but I still need to eat.I need my neighbor asleep and good band conditions to make things happen. I use to to be able to go a vacant lot nearby and string 150' of speaker wire and be in dx heaven. The homeless took over the lott so I am SOL.

 

[ridgescan]

Ah someone who shares my pain but when it's good it's great! Like this morning Botswana was coming in steady, and right now I have Radio Netherlands with a beautiful signal on 15315khz I think they are signing off now-yup there they went! Anyways I'm living with it and I am hopeful you can pull some good DX there as well!

 

[k9rzz]

6160khz 0220z CKZN St. Johns Newfoundland, CA English +20db but hvy slop from 6165khz. A bit off freq. 6159.95 khz calibration confirmed with WWV. Only 300 watts! *NEW!* Ident at TOH was CBC Radio 1. May also have CKZU Vancouver on freq. as well, underneath. All these years and I've NEVER heard them before! Oh yeah, I'm on LSB because 6165khz is S9+40db and these guys are only about S9.

 

[k9rzz]

Had All India radio coming in on 6110khz around 0330z or so while hooking up the audio to the computer. (could possibly be Tibet underneath) Made this quick video. Shows Cool Edit Pro which is my favorite audio processing software. Super powerful.

Radio :: india2.mp4 video by biffbradford - Photobucket

 

[k9rzz]

Was rocking out to Albanian pop earlier, but here's Voice of Russia from Krasnodar (east of Black sea, north of Turkey) with the singing of the Koran from Iran underneath. 7250khz @ ~ 0145z

Radio :: RussiaOverIran.mp4 video by biffbradford - Photobucket

This is on my Yaesu FT-767gx + vertical antenna, and I have the AGC *OFF*, and RF gain backed down.

 

[ridgescan]

Very nice DXs Boy you are going to bring lots of stuff here to enjoy. I like that analyzer.

 

[ridgescan]

BBC in English on 7445khz at 0317utc out of Ascension Island, St.Helena which is a small island about halfway between South America and Africa. Coming in real nice at between s10-s15! DX 7551miles.
Voice of Russia in Spanish 7335khz out of French Guiana super strong at s20-s30. DX 4934 miles
China radio Intl. in Chinese on 15160khz out of Jinhua, China super strong same as VOR DX 6325miles
voice of korea in French on 13760khz out of north korea s10-s15 DX 5467miles
Voice of Russia in English on 13735khz out of Vladvostok, Russian Federation very strong s15-s30 DX 5168miles
...and I will end with VOA in English out of Botswana on 9885khz once again coming in at a smooth s7-s9 DX 10,227miles

 

[ridgescan]

I love when I get the African continent at midday-man conditions are beautiful! Deutschwelle out of Rwanda-this is a rare occasion when I hadda kick on the preamp.
DeutschWelle via Rwanda video by ridgerocker2001 - Photobucket