Interference RFI from Airband to 2 meter Flex-6500

Hello Flexers.
I am proud new owner of a Flex 6500.
My setup is a Flex 6500, Steppir 2 elements with 40m antenna. Also using Elecraft XV144 for 2 meter work.
I am very happy wt the radio. the receiver is super and i can tailor my TX and RX to my please.
I use it daily for DX and feel the difference from my previous radio Icom 7600.

Here is an overview of my situation:

I live within less a mile of a powerful airband transmitter on 126.700Mhz.

When I listen with Elecraft XV144 transverter  with a hustler vertical on 144-146Mhz  I was hearing a distorted signal filling the whole band. After many days of searching for the audio I found the source which was a FM commercial radio on 106.1 MHz.

Thought was to buy a FM band notch filter .... glad i didnt !! You may wonder why.

I noticed that the interference is like short transmission the qso type, so i thought to check the airband for RFI.

You can see the results with the simple experiment in the following YouTube video. It will explain better than words:

https://youtu.be/-faspUeDE7A

So the problem is a Receiver Intermodulation from a powerful transmitter with mixing product of a FM commercial station.
Solution was a DCI-146-4H Band pass filter and now the 144Mhz band is crystal clear !

This is a classical example of using Flex radio to demonstrate RFI as an analyzer. SUCCESS!

2ND Problem:

I hear a lot of static and crashes on HF. Can be seen on the following video , look at the horizontal lines on the waterfall. IT can be very annoying and strong esp. at humid nights with +20db crahes and noise:

https://youtu.be/NfVXzMGpRFY


I thought its the same transmitter or one of the others present on airband but it is hard to associate.
to solve the problem I used a Low band pass filter from Bencher YA 1-30Mhz. to block the upper frequencies , but that didnt improve. I also thought it is from AM band and i used a MW block filter but also no improvement.

by the the way my is grounded and also station is grounded separately. all connections have ferite beads.

Any thoughts are wellcomed.

73
Mohamed 

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