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Kevin, I also had a very high noise level and it got to the point where I was going to climb the power myself and fix it right. Well, perhaps that was a bit too much but it need attention!
At the time it was NH Public Service and I called their service line for help. I was put in contact with a fellow who asked all the obvious questions and I answered them with the obvious answers. I asked him to come visit and see what my excitement was all about and he agreed to come in a few days.
When he arrived, I took my portable AM radio and tuned into the worse possible hash you could imagine and we both walked the neighborhood locating the faulty insulator. Overall, it was very productive for I not only found the cause of the loudest, troubling insulator but also found several more in my neighborhood causing the noise. The RFI power service specialist, with in two weeks, cured the hash and I was back again in full swing sending and copying CW. By the way, I showed him the shack and when he saw the layout, he knew I wasn’t just pulling his leg with a crank call and his coming was a legislate request.
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It is a 40/20/15/10/6/2 meter vertical dipole. It is center fed with capacitance spokes at the top and the bottom set are pointed out 90-degrees from vertical to give a place for a mounting pole.
This is the MFJ entry for it. I picked it up 2nd hand new in box for $100 about 15 years ago. http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-1796
I have it mounted on a conduit pipe up about 6 feet or so.
I couldn’t get a pic of my other antenna that I use for 160m. It blends in too well for a picture. I got a 500′ foot roll of 14ga insulated wire on clearance at Home Depot one day. I cut an appropriate length, ran it vertically (about 40′) to a branch of an oak tree and ran the rest over to another tree near the other corner of my small backyard.
Wayne,
You mentioned your antenna setup at the extra class last weekend and I was a bit slow in my copy. Can you tell us what you have and how you have it configured. Congrats on the contesting!
Two replies from my W2SZ VHF contest group…
Ed, K1EP says…
FD is not a contest….contest rules don’t apply.
Fred, K2TR says…
Generally speaking, field day is anything goes. Even relayed contacts on packet count. K1TTT once entered in the zero transmitter category using an Internet connection to packet nodes.A testament to PERSEVERANCE! Must be getting pretty hot this time of year in Central Florida! But any antenna farm with worth the effort!
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