Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio What would you do if you found that at random times your garage door opener didn't work, or the Wi-Fi network dropped out, or you couldn't switch off a light with an RF controller? That's the position I found myself in and the times at which this was happening were madly unpredictable. One moment everything would work fine and the next all things radio would just stop. As a radio amateur you're likely nodding your head and thinking, radio interference, there's some direction finding in your future. Sure enough, that's the case, but before that, I needed to know if the interference was random, if it had a particular pattern and how widespread it was, since it seemed to impact multiple different devices using different parts of the radio spectrum. Initially I focussed on getting a recording of it. I turned on my radio, tuned it to a 2m frequency and recorded the noise. Only one problem. There was no noise. All I could see was an extreme signal strength, but it wasn't showing up