[WVDXA] Museum Ham Shack Noise Free

[W8OI at aol.com]

Yes, there's good news finally on the power line noise front.  After  much 
pleading and cajoling, AEP has now pretty well cleared up our noise at the  
radio museum in Huntington.  I just left the museum after  spending several hours 
there today with a three-truck crew from AEP  and by the time we left, what 
little noise remained on the radio blanked out  fully when the FT-1000 noise 
blanker was turned on.
 
This has taken nine months.  AEP crews have been there on and off  since last 
Summer chasing down the many problems.  At first they changed  out bad 
insulators on poles immediately adjacent to the museum.  Then they  fixed some 
grounds.  Then a lightning arrestor.  Earlier this week  they replaced a 
transformer.  Today they came back and replaced insulators  on several more poles in the 
neighborhood.  After that, I worked a station  in Sweden who was only S2 and 
had no problem hearing him.
 
So anyone who needs a place to make a QSO with Scarborough  Reef next month 
has a good place to go. The beam at the museum is FIVE elements  on 10, FOUR on 
12-15-17-20, and THREE on 40.  It's on a tower that can go  up to 75 feet.  
The FT-1000 is connected to an SB-200 linear.
 
And maybe during the next WV QSO party we won't be called  "alligators."
 
Garry, W8OI   
 
 



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