Mike, I have found that my small local electric company, which has zero
capability for finding RFI sources, is great about coming and fixing them if I
can identify the pole or the neighborhood (within a few poles).
My major source, now mostly fixed, was slack spans rigged with taut span
hardware. These are commonly used where the primary wire needs to cross a road
and there is no room to guy the pole counter to the direction of the
cross-over. If the right hardware is not used, there is sparking between loose
parts on the insulators.
If I were you, I'd look for slack spans in the direction of the interference
and report the pole numbers. It wasn't until I found them all and got them all
fixed that my noise environment calmed down.
73, Pete N4ZR
At 11:45 PM 10/3/2005, Mike Brown wrote:
>I have had 3 problems with RFI from the electric lines in our
>neighborhood. Number 1, they were out the next day, and although it took
>maybe 3 months to fix, I was happy because they were at least trying,
>and did eventually find it.
>
>Second time. This was a nightmare that took 7 months to get fixed, and
>only then when the Fcc sent a letter to the mayor of our town, letting
>him know that fines would be costly. This was after I contacted them,
>got the complete brush off. The fellow that helps in these situations
>with the ARRL had written a letter to the CEO of the electric company
>(sorry, I know his name was John and he had a K2 call, and was a great
>help). But like I mentioned, they gave me the total brush off and I had
>to get aggressive, or that problem would still be here.
>
>About 2 weeks ago, another one pops up. All I have up is my tribander at
>40 ft now, but pointed the direction of the problem, I have S9 to 15
>over noise on 20, 15 and 10 meters. I let it go 2 weeks, just to make
>sure it was consistent, because I'm not going to bother them over an
>intermentent problem. This is 24/7, and never lets up, so today I called
>and we'll see what happens. If it turns into a long drawn out affair, I
>may just let it go and sell my hf rig. I have two many other problems in
>my life to fight with the power company again.
>
>This has been a few years ago, but it's still on the web...
>http://www2.arrl.org/news/enforcement_logs/2002/0406.html
>
>Funny, it wasn't long after the FCC sent that letter, my problem went away.
>
>Mike, K9MI - Anderson, IN
>
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