Fighting line noise

This weekend was the CQ 160 meter cw contest. I ran it a little Saturday night and early Saturday and Sunday mornings, finishing with about 170 contacts. Unfortunately, my S9 line noise has not gone away, and even though both the K3 and Icom 756 ProIII have very good filtering and noise reduction that takes most of it out, it is still just a pain in the ear to work through that type of noise. Yesterday three Commonweath Edison trucks pulled up in front of the house, and the workers made their way through my back yard to the power lines. One told me that a "neighbor was having a problem," but that's all I could get out of him. I told him I'd been experiencing very high noise levels the last few weeks, but that didn't seem to register with him. The four workers spent a couple hours working in the area, and I was hoping my neighbor's problem would solve mine. From what I could see and overhear, they didnt' discover or resolve anything, and my line noise is still present. Time to make my own report to Commonwealth Edison.

We got a Corgi puppy about three weeks ago, named Lucy. Here's a video of her on first day home.

Comments

Jerry Shirar said…
Did you have any luck banishing line noise from your QTH? Who did you work with? Phone numbers?

Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Jerry N9XR
Hanover Park