Hello lorence,
After a bit of investigation seems that all The US Is going to fight those meters. The power companies wants them so badly to read meters remotely, to make cash more fastly and in a timely manner.
In Italy, thanks to our f.. laws we are not allowed to deny the meter change. In The US, after a lot of complaints , The power Companies has decided to let the customer "decide".
What will be the next threat to our favorite hobby ?
Bye Giorgio IZ2JGB Il giorno 04/gen/2012, alle ore 15:11, Laurence KL7UK < [email protected]> ha scritto:
Hi Markus - well I think it is PLC. We had a "Turtle" installed in the electric meter and caused all sorts of QRM at LF (sounded like musical ticking sound at 137khz USB. Didn't like it and had a tech visit who was sympathetic and we agreed that it would be removed and my. Meter is manually read. More houses appeared around me so probably them - I'm just starting to install a whole house 150AMP per phase filter which should knock things down further if its conducted noise. Ill report on findings but It wasn't done this trip and time at home is so so short. Ill play with the antennae settings between the K9AYs and the probe and see if I can discern more. Regards Laurence at Seattle Tacoma. W7 enroute Denver next.
To: [email protected]From: [email protected]Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:42:56 -0500 Subject: Re: LF: Good pole vaulting...
Wondering what these "blobs" really are... we often see similar erratic dashes on other American grabbers, eg. VE2IQ. Looks like low data rate MFSK, perhaps power line communication?
Congratulations on the nice DX result!
73, Markus
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Good signals from DK7FC and another in the earlier evening time in Alaska. Nearly a full call from Stefan -
Antennae is a small probe located about 45ft up - this evening getting better s/n than the 2 element K9AY beaming North. Probably a wave angle thing against noise as its pretty quiet. Odd, but there you go - small can be Beautiful
The occasional Blob of carrier I'm going to blame on HAARP which is up the road - got to blame it on something. Nice to see pre Eu dawn lift - second day in a row me thinks.
Laurence KL7 UK AeroMobile
Anchorage to Seattle...
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