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Message from yvesvdd at Tuesday, 17-Apr-12 21:14:11 GMT

Bob from Poughkeepsie, New York put his Icom IC-R8500 online.
Feel free to tune in!

Message from erwin969 at Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 09:31:55 GMT

Location great but lot of noise on AM and FM. That's a pitty. Hope you can fix that.

Message from robertr64 at Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 10:37:32 GMT

It seems like some of the noise is coming from the laptop's wifi adapter as well as the USB/serial adapter. Any good way to fix that? I'm working on getting a better AM antenna.

Message from erwin969 at Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 10:39:46 GMT

Don't know how you can fix that. But maybe some other reciever users here can give you some advice.

Message from Ivo at Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 11:56:21 GMT

It's possible that the laptop power supply and the receiver audio cable create a ground loop. You could try to use a ground loop isolator in the audio line, but then the serial connection may still cause trouble. It may also help to cut either the ground wire on the laptop power supply or the receiver power supply, but this may be dangerous! A safer alternative would be to look for a (universal) notebook power supply that is not grounded.

Message from robertr64 at Thursday, 19-Apr-12 07:19:09 GMT

I'm not sure I want to mess with the laptop power as I occasionally use it for school. Will check on the Universal notebook one. For now I moved it to the other room to get rid of some of the noise from the FIOS box. Still not great on AM yet but FM is ok. I have AM loops but am getting a more general coveage antenna as this one is week below 850 or so.

Message from erwin969 at Thursday, 19-Apr-12 09:23:50 GMT

Your high stream is missing one channel b.t.w.

Message from hreggard at Thursday, 19-Apr-12 14:58:35 GMT

A good ND Vertical might solve your AM/MW issues; many site ops have had great success with such a setup.

Message from WDLC at Thursday, 19-Apr-12 17:12:07 GMT

The Poughkeepsie Node is a great new addition for Global Tuners...Bob has already improved the reception problem for local AM stations...hope other issues are resolved soon. Here are some youtube videos I recorded from Bob's Node. Make sure you log into your youtube account as it might say video not available in your country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0KjAC0RRo&context=C423cc8bADvjVQa1PpcFNT39khKAR88E8fyadRBTMs3-jSfAz535Y=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17kLpDfCCgU&context=C4a5d71fADvjVQa1PpcFNT39khKAR88D7DXRp3ysekNS3Uyns2Ed8=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svc0L-OoRE8&feature=youtube_gdata

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Message from yvesvdd at Thursday, 19-Apr-12 17:17:41 GMT

Maybe the earlier location was better? I don't get WFUV from NYC anymore on 90.7, so I think it might be worse now. Thanks for checking :)

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