06-17-2009, 12:22 PM
My 42-350, and indeed almost all my AM radios seem to be sensitive to some intermittent noise in my neighborhood. It is a kind of buzzing or crackling that starts some evenings after 5:00 PM or so and then continues all night. Some nights I don't hear it at all. I think it is probably some electrical appliance a neighbor is using.
The 42-350 seems especially sensitive to it, but the 41-280 is pretty bad also. Some modern radios are sensitive to this noise and some are not, but most seem to reject the noise better than the antiques do.
Oddly, my 41-250 is not very sensitive to this noise, though I can still hear it a little bit. I wish I knew what the differences might be so I could modify the radios that pick up this noise to make them less sensitive to it.
The 42-350 seems especially sensitive to it, but the 41-280 is pretty bad also. Some modern radios are sensitive to this noise and some are not, but most seem to reject the noise better than the antiques do.
Oddly, my 41-250 is not very sensitive to this noise, though I can still hear it a little bit. I wish I knew what the differences might be so I could modify the radios that pick up this noise to make them less sensitive to it.
John Honeycutt
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