Hi,
Given you worked for a number of companies, perhaps you could answer
this question?
What will the power company do if the problem is within a home? Will
they let me know they tracked it to a home, and which? Also will they
contact the homeowner, or person living there?
--
73's and Thanks,
Dave
http://www.nk7z.net for equipment reviews, propagation, and more...
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 10:33 -0500, Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:
> I have had lots of experience working with RFI over the last 35 years with
> three different power companies.
>
> With most of the guys coming out, you can't just tell them...I have an RFI
> problem and you need to find it.
>
> It is imperative you go out and do your homework.
>
> The first suggestion is something you can't do...turn the beam around to
> see where the source seems strongest. usually there are multiple sources so
> this can be tricky.
>
> Second, if you have a mobile rig, hit the road and using your AM radio as a
> starter, drive around the neighborhood. When you start getting pretty
> strong noise on the AM radio, switch to your mobile rig. Turn it on AM to
> the highest freq it will go. Higher is better. When it peaks in a
> general
> area. You have a culprit. Check to see if anyone in your local club has
> an MFJ "sniffer" or something similar. With that you can usually nail down
> the problem to one or two poles. Tie a piece of survey tape to the
> pole(s).
>
> After you have identified the offending sources, call up the power company
> again and tell them you know for sure which poles are the problem. I can
> tell you from experience they will be a lot more cooperative if you do this
> sort of thing. You , as the one with the complaint, will seem more
> knowledgeable, and you will find them easier to work with.
>
> I am currently working with my local power company using the above method
> and they have been very cooperative. In FL we have lots of thunderstorms
> and as a result many arrestors on the poles get blown. If you can lead them
> to the source they MUST and will fix it.
>
> YMMV.
>
> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
>
>
> In a message dated 11/13/2012 3:11:02 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,
> w7psk@yahoo.com writes:
>
> I guess I should have given a little background.
>
> Im suffering from severe RFI from my neighborhood, especially from 30
> meters down through 80 where its unbearable. Makes the bands sort of
> useless.
> I have noise on the higher bands but its bearable.
>
> I had the power company come out and try to find it as it sounded like
> power line buzz to me on AM. But they ruled it out. So they no longer will
> help. The ARRL has a volunteer that contacted me but after discussing the
> station, he wants me to fix a couple of issues he doesnt like before we go
> RF sniffing. He said legally with the FCC I need to correct these in case we
> have to file a complaint.
>
> My House is sort of a H shape with one leg off the H so sort of chair
> shaped. My room is midway though the longer side of the chair. I have no
> access hole out of the room to direct outside, and as we put up new siding
> the
> XYL is not keen on me popping a hole there. The Bathroom sits to one end
> and I had access to behind the tub so I ran my Coax down that access and
> across the crawlspace (which actually slopes) and out the air vents. You can
> stand in the crawl space on the bedroom end opposite the bathroom from my
> room. So driving a rod would be ok under the tub area. However my land is
> Rock filed and very difficult to drive a full 8 feet down, it just depends
> on
> the area.
>
> We rarely get lightning here, maybe 1 or 2 a year.
>
> My antennas are a Ground mounted Vertical with 16 25' radials and a 4ft
> ground rod (rocks would only allow that deep). Also I have a glen martin
> Roof tower right above the shack, which does not have a ground wire attached
> as I figured that would be 25 ft or so of ground wire and wouldn't be
> effective.
>
> The ARRL rep (an electrical engineer) said i need to drive an 8ft rod
> below my room and run 2ga down to it. I was going to get a bus bar from the
> big box to connect the shack equip to this ground.
>
> He also suggested I put 2 more 4ft grounds around the vertical.
>
> So that is what Im working with.
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