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Topband: Listening to an electric fence....

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Subject: Topband: Listening to an electric fence....
From: W8JI@contesting.com (Tom Rauch)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:54:46 -0400
> >If it has not rained, I'd look in the swamp (gasp)  Look for a wet
> >stick
> or a 
> >gooey dead snake laying accross the wires etc......

> The discharge to ground can be through anything conductive, such as
> live grass, which is one reason why I have less trouble with noise
> around here in the winter, when most of the candidate conductors are
> dried out.  

After checking and repairing dozens of spots in a large fence, I 
found the charger to be the source of the noise!  Changing the 
charger corrected the problem.
73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com 

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