Digital signals sound just like noise in our narrowband receivers. You may not realize that some of the noise you hear is caused by DTV and other digital transmitters. Join Paul Wade, W1GHZ, who will help you identify this insidious noise raising your noise floor and reducing your receiver sensitivity, and what you can do about it.
Bio:
Paul Wade W1GHZ, previously N1BWT and WA2ZZF, has been licensed since 1962 . He has been a microwave experimenter for years and published numerous articles as well as writing the “Microwavelengths” column in QST. He was past President of the North East Weak Signal Group (NEWS). An ongoing project is the “W1GHZ Microwave Antenna Book” – online at www.w1ghz.org.
In 1997, he was honored to be named by the Central States VHF Society as the recipient of the Chambers Award. He has been honored by the ARRL with the 2000 Microwave Development Award, in 2001 with the Thomas Kirby Eastern VHF/UHF Society Award, and in 2009 by Microwave Update and the North Texas Microwave Society with the Don Hilliard Award for Technical Contributions to the Microwave Community. In 2025, he was honored to receive the ARRL Doug DeMaw, W1FB, Technical Excellence Award. Paul is a Life Member of the IEEE.
After a long career in electrical engineering, including microwaves, computer hardware, and signal integrity, he and Beth, N1SAI, are now happily retired in Vermont with a rescue dog named Daisy. He was also a ski instructor for a time, and now enjoys skiing on a new bionic knee, and skijoring with Daisy.