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MOUNTED ANTENNAS CAN PICK UP NOISE THAT CAN BE NULLED, BUT NOISE PICKED UP
BY AN ANTENNA SWINGING WILDLY IN THE WIND MIGHT NOT.  USING THE QRM
ELIMINATOR LETS START WITH THE CONCLUSION THE QRM ELIMINATOR WORKS, AND
WORKS WELL, SOMETIMES.  SOMETIMES IS NOT A CRITICISM, BUT JUST THE RESULT
OF UNDERSTANDING THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE TECHNIQUE USED TO
SUPPRESS NOISE.  WHEN TESTING A RECEIVER OR TRANSMITTER, IF YOU SET THE
CONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS ONE DAY, SHUT DOWN, AND THEN COME BACK THE NEXT
DAY, YOU EXPECT TO GET THE SAME PERFORMANCE DAY TO DAY.  NOISE, ON THE
OTHER HAND, GENERALLY COMES FROM SOURCES THAT ARE RANDOM OR NOT WELL
DEFINED, THAT MAY VARY FROM DAY TO DAY OR HOUR TO HOUR OR EVEN MINUTE TO
MINUTE.  TO TEST THE QRM ELIMINATOR, I USED MY HOME STATION TRANSCEIVER, AN
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