Welcome to my Blog or I would rather say to my Home Page. The content here is mostly for my own use, i. e. to organize my interests/hobbies and to make it possible to recap what I have found is of interest for me. Some of it may also be of interest for you and I will be glad to share it. As you can see this Home Page has somewhat a focus on amateur radio. That is because my main hobby is or has been Amateur Radio with my callsign SM0FOB. Sometimes it is birdwatching or digital photography. It depends on my mood of the day. That is why the content here has a widespread focus on little here and there. My name is Kjell Bergqvist and I live in Jordbro (QTH LocatorJO99bd) in Haninge in Sweden. Jordbro is located 20 km SE of Stockholm.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Hunting noise at home

I suppose that you nowadays as a radio amateur, and with many nearby neighbours, have the same radio disturbing environment as I do have. It is not easy for me to use the 160 and 80 m bands. The noise level here is very high. Weak stations are not heard. This situation has come to stay and we have to live with it. Normally, the worst disturbing sources are flat panel TV and PC displays. Many such displays are in the 24h on position. Even if they are shut off into a resting position they do disturb. Once I did have Philips TV 32" tube set, that in its off position was a stronger disturbing source than in its on position. One neighbour has a 60" plasma TV display. A very powerful jammer I can assure you. I can easily detect when he is using it. The sum of all neighbouring noise sources, incl. my own and excl. the jammer, results in a S8 reading on a receiver´s signal meter. I can reduce this reading by one S-unit, ca 5 dB, by switching off my own jammers. First you have to find them. With a simple AM receiver on the MW band it is easy to locate them.


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You can see where I and some other radio amateurs are driving or are located for the moment. Get the live map from aprs.fi or click on a link below (maximum 300 stations per search are shown)

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