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Besides having lots of QRN from the snow storm I am plagued?with line noise that raises the noise floor at least 20 dB from an S-1 or 2 to S-5 to 7.? What I did at the start was to narrow the band spread from 50+ kHz to 5 kHz.? The most obvious thing I first noticed was the ganging up in the lower 500 Hz of the 1 kHz window.? So, I started picking up callers on both the upper and lower edges thinking that Ops would get the hint to spread out.? I use my diversity option on the receiver but this doesn't help when?folks are on top?of one another.? I also use the B receiver to monitor my own frequency sometimes just to advise callers that are out of "band" but, I didn't need to do this last evening.? ?One thing I did notice was that there were several stations that were well below the 1 kHz QRPFox band.? Again I didn't answer these callers.? Was I wrong?? Are there hardened rules?? I am sure if I wasn't in the middle of a rare southern snow storm I could have handed out many more pelts.??