Tell the neighbors to piss off and hang that 40M sucker on roof out in open so they can bitch and moan about it. It's your freaking house.
Gah can't go over the roof unfortunately. Not enough length over the property. Plus right at the front there's bastard EMI pissing LED street lamp
Going to:
1. Piss around with test gear and not much else now.
2. When I move buy something I can get a full porcupine farm in and a moat full of alligators to keep the complainers out.
Oh sucks. Yes, LED lamps do emit a surprising amount of RFI.
Alligators? Too passive. Toss them chicken and they're happy. Get crocodiles. They always mean and hungry for 2 legged creatures.
It even upsets us wannabe voltnuts. 3PPM @ 1.5m https://www.eevblog.com/forum/metrology/metrology-grade-lighting-i-am-in-the-dark/
We have S6-7 noise here thanks to a block of flats nearby and cheap SMPSUs. Have had a bit of luck with a horizontal loop, open ladder feeder to a balun then atu, quite a bit quieter than a dipole or esp a vertical.
Also putting in a big earth system also helps. We had a talk by our local broadcast techno boffin - also a ham - he sorts out when the local radio stations get a bad swr, his point was a lot of noise can come in on the mains earth. From an rf perspective the grounding at the meter is rubbish - I have yet to build a 'mains rf sampler' but intend to do so.
Rob
as some famous american guy said, "i feel your pain". i live in a sea of noise that is, on average, S8 deep and that's with a metric crap ton of ferrite on every cable in my house, going back to incandescent lights, switching out SMPS for linears, and getting rid of ethernet. my house is surrounded by plasma TVs, grow lights, solar power systems, and LED street lights, none of which i can do anything about. the only real solution is going where the RFI ain't, so i do some portable operating but that is no fun when it is really cold, dark, or wet outside. and the reality is, at least in the urban united states, it is only going to get much much worse.
i guess if there is good news it is that i have more time for TEA-compliant activities and for building in general, as indicated by the stack of recently acquired CROs sitting on the shack floor.
and i vote for crocodiles.