[Harc] Static noise help

Mark Nelson aa6dx7388 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 18:00:58 CDT 2021


Here's some advice....
.Car Audio Noise Suppression Guide — Diagnosing and Treating Noise Problems
in Your Car Audio System (crutchfield.com)
<https://www.crutchfield.com/S-n7GDUCmPd2c/learn/learningcenter/car/noise_suppressors_installation_guide.html>
In the way-back. we would take a piece of RG-58 with PL-259 into radio, and
strip the coax back a few inches .. including the shield, to form a short
antenna -- then. turn up the audio on the radio, squelch open, and probe
the engine department for the offending culprit.  73, es bon chance!   de
Mark * AA6DX*



On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:50 PM Anthony Wiese via Harc <
harc at humboldt-arc.org> wrote:

> Hello All,
>   Looking for a little help diagnosing a noise in my mobile and broadcast
> radio.  It's a "static" type noise that relates to my engine RPM.  It seems
> to be getting progressively worse.  I hear it when I open the squelch on my
> mobile and on some freqs of my FM broadcast radio.  My mobile radio is
> connected directly to the battery.  Today I changed the alternator hoping I
> would luck out.  I don't know how old it was and it wasn't going to be hard
> to replace so I went in that direction.  No joy.  The spark plugs aren't as
> easy to get to in this V-6 so I didn't do that first.  Perhaps spark plug
> wires next?
> Thanks for any insight you might send my way.
> Cheers,
> Anthony
> 951-623-3400
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