Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihlpg!portegys From: portegys@ihlpg.UUCP (Tom Portegys) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Need help for a noise problem Message-ID: <223@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 17:29:49 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpg.223 Posted: Mon Mar 4 17:29:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 02:21:28 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25 I need help with an irritating noise problem. My neighbor and myself receive an intermittant signal on our TV and FM radio (I don't know about AM). The signal produces a band of small white dots on TV, and a buzzing sound on the radio. It can be seen on a number of TV channels. It also occurs on a portable radio held outside my house, so I don't think it is in the AC power. The noise also seems to occur without any pattern that I would associate with a ham radio, although I can't rule out that possibility. I have some power lines behind my house carrying residential power, and also a transformer on a pole back there. Can I track down the noise source with a portable radio? The radio has one of those telescoping antennas. If I could get the noise to sound louder when I hold the antenna in a certain position, how do I know which direction the noise is coming from? I would appreciate any advice. Tom Portegys AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, Ill. ...ihnp4!ihlpg!portegys