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  • Wishy-washy QRM on 2m

    From Gareth Paley@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 25 09:39:29 2023
    Getting this terrible drifting narrow(ish) band noise on 2m tonight. Before I break out the DF gear, has anyone seen anything like this (*) before and found out what's causing it?

    * https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jGbVeKaLNcY

    I'm thinking someone's got a dicky phone charger

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    www.qrz.com/db/M0WWS

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  • From Brian Howie@21:1/5 to Gareth Paley on Thu Jan 26 10:02:33 2023
    In message <[email protected]>,
    Gareth Paley <[email protected]> writes
    Getting this terrible drifting narrow(ish) band noise on 2m tonight.
    Before I break out the DF gear, has anyone seen anything like this (*)
    before and found out what's causing it?

    * https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jGbVeKaLNcY

    I'm thinking someone's got a dicky phone charger

    --
    73 de M0WWS
    www.qrz.com/db/M0WWS

    I get that sort of thing on 4m , Generally at night, so I assume it's a
    dodgy LED fitting. It drifts up and down the band and sounds fuzzy.
    Solar inverters will only give bother during the day. Time of day
    therefore might give you a clue. The noisy Xmas tree lights seem to
    have gone now. I have found df-ing this sort of stuff difficult,
    particularly intermittent stuff.

    Good luck

    Brian
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    Brian Howie

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  • From Gareth Paley@21:1/5 to Brian Howie on Thu Jan 26 07:20:06 2023
    On Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 11:53:15 AM UTC, Brian Howie wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>,
    Gareth Paley <[email protected]> writes
    Getting this terrible drifting narrow(ish) band noise on 2m tonight.
    Before I break out the DF gear, has anyone seen anything like this (*) >before and found out what's causing it?

    * https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jGbVeKaLNcY

    I'm thinking someone's got a dicky phone charger

    --
    73 de M0WWS
    www.qrz.com/db/M0WWS
    I get that sort of thing on 4m , Generally at night, so I assume it's a
    dodgy LED fitting. It drifts up and down the band and sounds fuzzy.
    Solar inverters will only give bother during the day. Time of day
    therefore might give you a clue. The noisy Xmas tree lights seem to
    have gone now. I have found df-ing this sort of stuff difficult,
    particularly intermittent stuff.

    Good luck

    Brian
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    Brian Howie

    Thanks Brian, it either gave up the ghost completely or warmed up some more and drifted up a few MHz because I was noise free for the rest of the evening:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld7frFcTwpg

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    73 de M0WWS
    www.qrz.com/db/M0WWS

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