As an electric power utility employee in charge of this type of situation,
I readily endorse this procedure. Do all you can locally, even being
involved in the actual noise source locating together with the line crew.
After complete and thorough efforts directly with the utility fail to solve
the problem, then by all means write a NICE letter to the authorities. 73
de Milt, N5IA
At 03:43 PM 3/24/98 -0500, Scott Ellington wrote:
>Something I should have mentioned in my first posting:
>
>Writing letters to your power company, PSC, FCC, etc. should be considered
>a last resort. Make every effort to solve the problem first
>through the usual channels. If these agencies get flooded
>with letters every time a little noise is detected, letters will no
>longer be effective. Unless you have an unusually enlightened
>utility, YOU will have to find the source of the noise yourself, or
>at least narrow it down to a small area. If you have done that,
>and still can't get action from the power company, THEN it may
>be time to consider writing.
>
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>73,
>
>Scott K9MA
>sdelling@facstaff.wisc.edu
>
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