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Title: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 12, 2012, 02:22:32 PM Rob appears to be the channel master.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otWX35N2A4E Title: Re: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: KX5JT on November 12, 2012, 08:04:24 PM I dunno, K5IIA sure was sounding good towards the end...
Title: Re: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 12, 2012, 09:52:04 PM I noticed that. Who ever made the vid had some horrible noise. I'm sure everyone had a good sigs on a decent antenna.
Title: Re: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: w1vtp on November 13, 2012, 12:23:00 PM Steve
Noise: That's the first thing I noticed. I'd be going nuts with a S9 noise level. Imagine what stations that weren't being heard - or was he fudging around with the RF gain? AL Title: Re: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: K5UJ on November 14, 2012, 07:24:03 AM That SWL needs to do something about his noise level. I don't know how anyone could listen to that recording for more than 10 or 20 seconds. Brandon is certainly the big signal there; not me.
Title: Re: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: K5IIA on November 14, 2012, 07:48:01 PM you never know who is listening. that is neat..
Title: Re: K5UJ as heard by SWL Post by: John Holotko on November 26, 2012, 03:01:46 PM Steve Noise: That's the first thing I noticed. I'd be going nuts with a S9 noise level. Imagine what stations that weren't being heard - or was he fudging around with the RF gain? AL Wow... that is worst than my noise level. I assume the SWL who made the video is either in a city or heavily populated suburban area where you get clobbered by all sorts of QRM, a lot of which comes from computer and networking equipment and consumer electronics junk. Years ago a ham/swl friend of mine moved from this area up to the rural Adirondacks. He was used to the high noise levels we have here constantly. When he arrived at his new place and fired up his receivers he thopught at fiorst the receiver was broken or the antenna was disconnected. He simply was not used to the low noise levels. During the recent hurricane my power was out for 5 days. I managed to fire up a battery operated MW/HF receiver. I couldn't believe how low the noise was. I was pulling in weak signals from everywhere with a piece of wire out the window. As soon as the power cam back and the computers , networking, and consumer junk came back on it was history. |