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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/2/2013 9:46 AM, Dave B wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 1 Jan 2013 at 7:56, lawrence labranche wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hybrids have a lot of electrical noise. In my father-in-law's hybrid,
I find the static goes away with the car turned off. As a test, how
does it do off a 12v battery or another vehicle?
KI6ZQY
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A few days ago, hmpf, thinking about it, t'was before Xmas, as I was
trundling along in the trusty low tech Land Rover (about the only "high
tech" item currently in there, is the rig) while listening to a couple of
good old boys elsewhere in the UK having a chinwag on 40m, when the
background noise started to grow and grow, blotting out the QSO eventualy
maxing out at S9+++++ and then some (whatever full scale on a 706 is,
with the pre-amp off) just as an early model Prius passed me. The
antenna at that time, was just a 3m length rod ("Tank Whip" in UK speak)
with an auto ATU at the bottom.
It was some minutes before I could hear the QSO again, by that time, the
Prius was well over 100m in front of me.
Nasty nasty non EMC compliant thing. </pre>
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The Prius is notorious for this noise. I had a 2005 Prius, and
discovered that basically radio was impossible on any frequency
below 2 meters. The entire HF and lower VHF band (6 meters) is
blanketed with a broadband white noise level ranging from S9+20 on
160 to around S-6 on 6 meters, as measured on a Yaesu FT-100 and the
companion ATAS-100 antenna. Even on 2 meters, I was observing
about 3-5 dB desense due to the noise. <br>
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(On FM of course, the noise isn't obvious against the normal white
noise of an unsquelched empty FM channel. Only that fewer familiar
regular stations were reliably copied on 2M APRS that in the
previous installation with the same hardware on another vehicle.)
It was so problematic, even for 2M APRS operation, that I traded it
in for a 2006 Jetta TDI turbo-diesel. The DSG dual-clutch
robotically-shifted manual (dry clutch) transmission makes weird
noises in the HF radio while running through the gears, but once
it's settled in 6th, the car is very quiet electrically. <br>
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By the way, the original poster's vehicle, the Ford Escape Hybrid
mini-SUV, actually used Toyota's Synergy Drive System (the exact
same version used in the 2005 Prius) for the first few years. Not
sure if they still do, or now use a home-grown hybrid drive. <br>
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