Nice one bd139 thanks for the links
Screw old fart radio, I can get away that because I am an old fart. The whole point of amateur radio is "a station that is operated for the purposes of
self-training in radiocommunications". The new digital modes work really well especially when you have very poor SNR, they teach you about coding and error correction and they have a lot going for them. It's definately a step in the right direction for amateur radio.
If you put "amateur radio operator" on your CV you would want it look good rather than the interviewers thinking "oh, one of those" and the CV goes straight into the bin. Amatuer radio has a long way to go to tidy up it's image.
Talking of QRN, man made interference, I found another source, not switched mode power supplies but my broadband cable connection. Will have to fix the Chase HFR2000 EMC receiver and do a measurement with a ferrite clamp but I don't think fixing the receiver is going to happen any time soon. Oddly enough, yesterday evening there were some guys stuffing cable up the pavement so I asked if it was for power or broadband and said no it's for fibre to the premises, can't wait.