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Huh? / Re: A new Bacon's Rebellion......
« on: October 29, 2015, 1816 UTC »
Eat a lot of cabbage and beans to increase the methane levels... toss in that ham bone for the heck of it... that will po the control jerks ;-)
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Well here in the Tipp City/ Troy region of Ohio AM radio is next to worthless, even the 'big boys' (10-50KW) don't have a prayer at full quieting here... of course Dayton is just a few miles to the west of me and the noise there is simply unbelievable ...
As an example, WHIO AM in Dayton... The only way I can get a decent signal from them is to move the radio around so the Ferrite bar antenna is right on them but the average listener isn't going to do that because who wants the AM radio sideways on the entertainment center? It just doesn't look right and it is a very little matter to switch the receiver to FM and get WHIO FM perfectly.
In the area I live in, with dozens of apartments around me, the electrical feed line is underground but that does little to reduce the noise an crud that comes from the above ground power cables within easy walking distance from me.
This so called revitalization order is just so much BS...
And don't get me going on the 'Part 15' devices that radiate a signal that propagates for miles and miles. Plastics heaters that heat using RF are the absolute worse case for me.... grrrrrrrrrr....
When the power companies get an interference report guess what kind of receiver they use.... yep, you guessed it an FM radio... never an AM radio. Why? I the words of a lineman I talked to; "No one used AM any more when they can listen to FM..." and for the most part he is right!
I suspect that FM listeners are getting rare because of MP3 players, wifi etc etc... Most stations with less of a market share...
I could go on but I know you folks know exactly what I am saying...
Have a great day and a better tomorrow!!
73
Vince
KA1IIC
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512
General Radio Discussion / Re: Pirate frequency QRM at my QTH: what could it be?
« on: October 29, 2015, 1751 UTC »
"So exactly how far away could you hear signals coming from such devices?! I would presume it would only be a few houses away from the source?"
If it is only via the 'air' a very little area will be covered by such devices in theory But...
If the device is in some way being coupled to the electrical house wiring... watch out! Because the house wiring becomes a very large antenna. This situation becomes much worse (and the signal much stronger) if one of the 'runs' of house wiring is resonate to the devices operating frequency or any of its harmonics.
The big problem is the fact that many houses do not have their own distribution transformer, with multiple houses being connected to a single transformer. This can raise all kinds of hell for a Ham or SWL in that your house wiring becomes a part of the antenna for the 'dirty' signal from the device. And the interfering signal is coupled (more or less) directly to your receiver. Fun ehhh?
Question: Have you checked for harmonics both below and above 6925 khz? If there are none then it may well be a beacon, tracking device, intruder alarm, etc etc, ?? of some sort.
Who knows what kind of scat 'Doctor Poo' is creating these days <sigh> Don't blame Canada, blame China et al and the very lose Part 15 testing of these cheap devices...
nuff said 4 now...
If it is only via the 'air' a very little area will be covered by such devices in theory But...
If the device is in some way being coupled to the electrical house wiring... watch out! Because the house wiring becomes a very large antenna. This situation becomes much worse (and the signal much stronger) if one of the 'runs' of house wiring is resonate to the devices operating frequency or any of its harmonics.
The big problem is the fact that many houses do not have their own distribution transformer, with multiple houses being connected to a single transformer. This can raise all kinds of hell for a Ham or SWL in that your house wiring becomes a part of the antenna for the 'dirty' signal from the device. And the interfering signal is coupled (more or less) directly to your receiver. Fun ehhh?
Question: Have you checked for harmonics both below and above 6925 khz? If there are none then it may well be a beacon, tracking device, intruder alarm, etc etc, ?? of some sort.
Who knows what kind of scat 'Doctor Poo' is creating these days <sigh> Don't blame Canada, blame China et al and the very lose Part 15 testing of these cheap devices...
nuff said 4 now...
513
Huh? / Re: A new Bacon's Rebellion......
« on: October 29, 2015, 1700 UTC »
Let the people be... to hell with the WHO and the UN... what good are they? Just a bunch of killjoy fat butts that leach off the people hard work and $$$ Down with the control freaks!
514
Huh? / Re: Help with phantom critter
« on: October 27, 2015, 2052 UTC »
Did you take pictures of the chewing??? Might help to ID the offender...
But then... if you are like me, one foot on a banana peel and the other foot in the twilight zone... could be an evil radio spirit that is haunting you... it's close to H day ya know ;-)
But then... if you are like me, one foot on a banana peel and the other foot in the twilight zone... could be an evil radio spirit that is haunting you... it's close to H day ya know ;-)
515
Huh? / Re: Drone on...
« on: October 27, 2015, 2045 UTC »
Speaking of drones... check this out ( for wifi ppl etc) looks kool...
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bebop-drone/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=bannieres&utm_campaign=bebop_octnov2015
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bebop-drone/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=bannieres&utm_campaign=bebop_octnov2015
516
General Radio Discussion / China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan
« on: October 27, 2015, 1410 UTC »
https://thehackernews.com/2013/11/russia-finds-spying-microchips-planted_1.html
Better check my under ware...
Better check my under ware...
517
Spy Numbers / Re: S28/UVB-76 on 6998 kHz USB
« on: October 26, 2015, 2323 UTC »
I'm hearing it here at South Ohio at the noise level with some 'very serious' audio filtering in line
Oct 26, 2015 2300 UTC
Oct 26, 2015 2300 UTC
518
Utility / Re: WWV 25 mHz 2149z 17OCT15
« on: October 25, 2015, 1937 UTC »
I'm hearing it today Oct 25 2015 1930 UTC with a wire on the floor to my Sangean ATS 505... let me check it with the yaesu FT817ND... ahhh yes a much better signal with that one... 9 db above the noise... not bad at all.
The propagation has been better than that of late... at least for the past few days anyway...
The propagation has been better than that of late... at least for the past few days anyway...
519
Huh? / Re: Drone on...
« on: October 25, 2015, 1522 UTC »
love it..... <heh>
<Modify follows>
What does one 'get' if said Officers head is still firmly seated in the helmet?
<Modify follows>
What does one 'get' if said Officers head is still firmly seated in the helmet?
520
General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC Issues AM Radio Revitalization Order
« on: October 24, 2015, 2138 UTC »Weird., didn't see anything about enforcement of RFI emissions in that document.
Around here, would go a long way in protecting the AM radio band (amongst other bands).
Well here in the Tipp City/ Troy region of Ohio AM radio is next to worthless, even the 'big boys' (10-50KW) don't have a prayer at full quieting here... of course Dayton is just a few miles to the west of me and the noise there is simply unbelievable ...
As an example, WHIO AM in Dayton... The only way I can get a decent signal from them is to move the radio around so the Ferrite bar antenna is right on them but the average listener isn't going to do that because who wants the AM radio sideways on the entertainment center? It just doesn't look right and it is a very little matter to switch the receiver to FM and get WHIO FM perfectly.
In the area I live in, with dozens of apartments around me, the electrical feed line is underground but that does little to reduce the noise an crud that comes from the above ground power cables within easy walking distance from me.
This so called revitalization order is just so much BS...
And don't get me going on the 'Part 15' devices that radiate a signal that propagates for miles and miles. Plastics heaters that heat using RF are the absolute worse case for me.... grrrrrrrrrr....
When the power companies get an interference report guess what kind of receiver they use.... yep, you guessed it an FM radio... never an AM radio. Why? I the words of a lineman I talked to; "No one used AM any more when they can listen to FM..." and for the most part he is right!
I suspect that FM listeners are getting rare because of MP3 players, wifi etc etc... Most stations with less of a market share...
I could go on but I know you folks know exactly what I am saying...
Have a great day and a better tomorrow!!
73
Vince
KA1IIC
521
Huh? / Re: MI6 spy found dead in locked bag 'blackmailed and killed by Russian hitmen'
« on: October 24, 2015, 1928 UTC »
I could never be any kind of spy and here's why:
I'm pretty darned good at getting into compromising photographs all by myself thank you very much. And they aren't staged in any way...
Nope... not one bit....
<sigh>
I'm pretty darned good at getting into compromising photographs all by myself thank you very much. And they aren't staged in any way...
Nope... not one bit....
<sigh>
522
Huh? / I've got all these little sub-assemblies that I've buit now to put them together
« on: October 24, 2015, 1912 UTC »
As the subject line says... I've built all these little 'goodies' so now what to do with them...
VFO's, Crystal oscillators, IF's, RF stages, detectors, audio amplifies, balanced mixers, etc etc... Now what to build...
Well with the VFO that has a serious drift problem... It's really not a VFO but more like a DFO (Drift-able Frequency Oscillator as the Timtron would call it) I could rig it up with a few of the other self-assemblies as a receiver and I would have a scanner... good idea?
Now with the really good sub-assemblies I want to build a receiver that not only can be used on short wave but can also be used to read the minds of those people that are plotting against me (how's that for a little paranoia for some added suspense?)
I really don't know how to build such a thing so I must call on someone much smarter than I... (no not a garden slug... I can hear what you folks are saying so cut it out ehhhh?) I must channel the spirit of Doctor Richard P. Feynman!!!! That's the ticket... Doctor Feynman can figure this one out!!!
Here we go.... channelling Doctor Feynman, channelling Doctor Feynman, channelling Doctor Feynman, channelling the Doctor, channelling the Doctor, channelling the Doctor, ... make your Spirit known to me!!!!
<<<<Pooffity Poof de poof slam bang thank you.... BANG!!!>
Well... all I got was what looks like an old fashioned 'out house' with a sign on it that says; 'Litter Box'.... hummmmm what good is this?
Ratts!!!
Wait... the Litter Box door is opening and... and... <what the heck!!!> It's Doctor Poo... !!! Doctor poo and his Litter Box...
This always happens to me... I start a useful project and it all turns to crap...
I'm outa here....
<Door slams and junk falls to the floor and it ends up look like a wire factory exploded>
(((SIGH!!!)))
/* when in doubt use an 'idiot loop'... problem solved.... */
VFO's, Crystal oscillators, IF's, RF stages, detectors, audio amplifies, balanced mixers, etc etc... Now what to build...
Well with the VFO that has a serious drift problem... It's really not a VFO but more like a DFO (Drift-able Frequency Oscillator as the Timtron would call it) I could rig it up with a few of the other self-assemblies as a receiver and I would have a scanner... good idea?
Now with the really good sub-assemblies I want to build a receiver that not only can be used on short wave but can also be used to read the minds of those people that are plotting against me (how's that for a little paranoia for some added suspense?)
I really don't know how to build such a thing so I must call on someone much smarter than I... (no not a garden slug... I can hear what you folks are saying so cut it out ehhhh?) I must channel the spirit of Doctor Richard P. Feynman!!!! That's the ticket... Doctor Feynman can figure this one out!!!
Here we go.... channelling Doctor Feynman, channelling Doctor Feynman, channelling Doctor Feynman, channelling the Doctor, channelling the Doctor, channelling the Doctor, ... make your Spirit known to me!!!!
<<<<Pooffity Poof de poof slam bang thank you.... BANG!!!>
Well... all I got was what looks like an old fashioned 'out house' with a sign on it that says; 'Litter Box'.... hummmmm what good is this?
Ratts!!!Wait... the Litter Box door is opening and... and... <what the heck!!!> It's Doctor Poo... !!! Doctor poo and his Litter Box...
This always happens to me... I start a useful project and it all turns to crap...
I'm outa here....
<Door slams and junk falls to the floor and it ends up look like a wire factory exploded>
(((SIGH!!!)))
/* when in doubt use an 'idiot loop'... problem solved.... */
523
Huh? / Re: Drone on...
« on: October 24, 2015, 1851 UTC »
Question:
Why is it that only drones have and use drones?
We may never know....
Why is it that only drones have and use drones?
We may never know....
524
Huh? / Re: Bibop Gresta???
« on: October 24, 2015, 1831 UTC »
quote: "I think they would contract, turning her inside out, leaving her to talk out of her ass like her mother, but that's just an educated guess."
I think you are spot on with them contracting but can you imagine what a stink she would cause every time she opened her mouth?
And her groupies would have to stick their noses in her mouth in order to 'brown nose' her...
urrrppppt... I think I'ma gonna gag... urpppp!
vince
I think you are spot on with them contracting but can you imagine what a stink she would cause every time she opened her mouth?
And her groupies would have to stick their noses in her mouth in order to 'brown nose' her...
urrrppppt... I think I'ma gonna gag... urpppp!
vince
525
General Radio Discussion / !0 meters is open and of course there is a contest happening....
« on: October 24, 2015, 1818 UTC »
10 M is open right now... 1800 UTC... Lot's of contesters on... and now for my comment...
Maybe some of you might remember ( I don't know why you would but... I digress) in the past I have mentioned that there are times when 11 meters is wide open but 10 meters is 'dead'...
Here's my point, kinda-sorta, I can only hear 1 (one) 10 meter CW beacon at my location today but loads of USB/CW real time stations...
I guess this means that 'human nature' is a factor... If Joe Ham doesn't hear anyone on the band then the band must be 'totally dead'.
But today, for me at least, proves otherwise... I always call CQ even on those days when no one is on (but if I am on then there IS at least one person to talk to...)
Makes me think about a guy many years ago (on 75 meters daytime) who used to carry on a 2-way conversation with himself... and at times he would really get angry about what he said and then give himself the devil for saying it... I really enjoyed listening to him... (I withhold his name and call as he has since pass on... may he resume his QSO with himself where ever Hams go when they go SK)
Good Grief I'm rambling again... sri me bad...
73
Vince
Ka1iic
Maybe some of you might remember ( I don't know why you would but... I digress) in the past I have mentioned that there are times when 11 meters is wide open but 10 meters is 'dead'...
Here's my point, kinda-sorta, I can only hear 1 (one) 10 meter CW beacon at my location today but loads of USB/CW real time stations...
I guess this means that 'human nature' is a factor... If Joe Ham doesn't hear anyone on the band then the band must be 'totally dead'.
But today, for me at least, proves otherwise... I always call CQ even on those days when no one is on (but if I am on then there IS at least one person to talk to...)
Makes me think about a guy many years ago (on 75 meters daytime) who used to carry on a 2-way conversation with himself... and at times he would really get angry about what he said and then give himself the devil for saying it... I really enjoyed listening to him... (I withhold his name and call as he has since pass on... may he resume his QSO with himself where ever Hams go when they go SK)
Good Grief I'm rambling again... sri me bad...
73
Vince
Ka1iic
