It is not always easy to identify where QRN is coming from and it's even harder to describe it to someone else if you're looking for their help.  Now you can identify QRN by comparing it to audio samples of noise from known sources...a kind of "audio fingerprinting."

If you have a player configured and you'd like to download the file instead of playing it online then you should be able to do so by right-clicking on the link, then click on Save Target As, and specify where you'd like to save the file. Feel free to download any of the files that interest you.

You can also click on the View Waveform button to see what the noise might look like if you could view it on an oscilloscope. The waveform views are 0.1 seconds wide, which is sufficient magnification to see what's going on. For example, noises that are based on 60 Hz line voltage will have 6 pulses in a 0.1 second window (60 Hz / 10 = 6), or six repetitions of a recognizable pattern in the case of the Sony TV waveform.