ok, Just wanna say one more time that's it's great to have you guys on my side. I shoulda come here years ago.
First, I guess, no, I'm not absolutely positive that there are no operating e-fences in the area. When I said no before, I meant that the fences that are really close, 40-50 yards are not lit, but as I think I mentioned before, this is cattle country, and there's fences all over the county. The next closest fences from me are more like 100-150 yards away......could that screw me up? That far away? I'd just go up there and touch them, (I'm from farm country too) to see if they're lit, rather than leave the question in the air for you guys to deal with, but I'm disabled, hiking around is really tough for me, and the wife won't grab em for me.
I do have a buddy who would help me out with this, if you guys think that could be a problem, that far away.....hmmmmm.
Yes! I'm familiar with the guitar nuts website, and I've been planning to shield all my guitars as soon as possible, but since we've moved in here, we've been pretty busy trying to make this thing livable. Could be next winter before I get to that project....Does the paint idea really work? Or should I plan to do metal shielding in my cavities. hmm again.
and YES! again. Thanks for looking up the radar data Rod. That's all starting to come back to me now. I remember reading about it years ago. Cakewalk's ancestors invented it back in WWII, cuz the Germans were sneaking across the Channel and bombing the hell out of them. Yes. A "ping" goes out, returns, and they time the trip, resulting in an accurate gauge of distance. (Sonar, underwater radar, works on the same idea, even with the fish finder in my 16 ft johnboat.) I'll need to do some more reading, and refresh my memory on this stuff. (whodathunkit..for a project recording studio.....RAdar.) Ya lost me though, when you started talkin bandwidth....See, it was my thinking that this thing is sending out a signal. Yes. But it's also a sweeping signal, cuz the thing is spinning around. You can see it on our local TV weather, sending a white line around on the map, across the county, with the center point being at MY freakin house. So, I was thinking not in electriclal terms, but mechanical ones. I was wondering if the devise itself is spinning at 55 rpm, and generating the strongest signal as it passed over my trailer.....I dunno...
and YES one more time. I didn't want to complicate the issue earlier, but my 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions face either ends of my trailer precisely. 3 and 9 face the sides. The $#^%$#@ Doppler is at about 2 o'clock, so what you said about my trailer acting as an antena jives perfectly with that...
Right?
I am absoluyely elated that I don't have a ground loop problem. Ever crawled under an old trailer? It's about 2.5 feet off the ground, and I'm claustrophobic as hell, but that's where I'd need to go in order to investigate the wiring. It's all under the floor. We have everything from Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders, to rattlers, and they all love it down there. You guys have saved me a real nightmare.
So it seems to me, that we've got it narrowed down pretty well, and here's a list of what I need to do.
Check e-fences. How far away? ....wonder how I'm gonna get the local ranchers to unPLug their fences !! ...hmmm. Don't think that's gonna happen..
.......maybe I could get them to let me install some knife switches...keep in touch with them as to when they're grazing stock....again though, how far away?
When I get all the shiddy old paneling torn down, I'm gonn make sure every panel of the trailers outer skin is grounded to the trailer's frame. Reason being, they come from the factory painted on one side, so there could be a loss of conductivity at each seam. Then I'm gonna check the grounding of my power, and make sure that the trailer's frame is grounded. There is a grounding rod pounded into the ground at one end of the trailer, with a ground wire attached to it, but I'll need to crawl under to make sure the connection to the frame is good.
So, really, the most encouraging idea here, is the idea of shielding the cavities on my instruments. I have yet to fire up my recording gear, but there doesn't seem to be a problem with EMI/RFI with our stereo gear, and no "tick" In fact, the power seems to be pretty clean. Since my guitar amps are going to be my worst offenders, maybe shielding my pick-up cavities will produce a result that is acceptable for recording....no? ( IhopeIhopeIhope )When we moved here, my biggest worry was the three uninsulated power lines crossing the property, 25 yards from my studio room. 30KV each. Never even considered fences, or RAdar......
did I forget anything?.....
If nothing else, this sure has been interesting. Thanks again to all, for all the help !!
Z
...9000 volts bigbob? I always thought they were low-voltage, 12-24 volt systems.....I dunno..but PLEASE!! Do me a favor and go back to my original post, and tell me if the tick I described there sounds like the tick you heard through your monitors ! ....here again though, I have no fence controllers in my home, and neither do any neighbors who live closer than 100-150 yards away. There are no live fences any closer than that.....How far was your gear from your fence when you had your ticking problem? If a bad controller somewhere is sending a "tick" through a turned off section of fencing, near my trailer, could I walk around with my voltmeter, or maybe a small radio, touch the antena to the fence, and maybe locate a problem?
All my other neighbors are more than 200 yards away...I suppose I could go bug 1 or 2 of them...It's just that at that distance, I gotta wonder whether the test would be a viable one. Judging by what bigtom and thunder have said, they're liable to have a 'ticks", all their own, from different sources. I've gotta admit, I'm starting to lose any hopes here of eliminating my "tick", and will now be happy if I can just minimize it.....I'll be back later. I'm gonna go shoot the golf ball, just for the hell of it.