Hi Ken,
I totally agree with Frank, and I would never report anything to anyone
including the power company until you are 99.9 percent sure you have
identified the suspect property.
Regarding power line interference the only time I called local power
company without knowing the exact power pole responsible for a problem was
when I had 2 very closely spaced power poles and could not eliminate one or
the other as being the root cause of the problem (they were just a feet
apart from each other).
I don't think any of us have mentioned the obvious first test that should
have been done, and that's to kill entire power to KC4Ds house (including
UPS systems) and power his receiver with a battery to make sure the problem
is not from within.
P.S. were you able to hear the noise from just outside KC4Ds house with
your portable equipment when not located near overhead lines or near his TX
antennas? If so you should be able to confirm direction of the noise (or
at least the two possible directions it could be coming from, and did it
match up with what his beverages yielded (about ENE)? If so, then were you
able to go to a clear field in that general direction but off to the side
to get another set of headings, etc?
Don (wd8dsb)
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:03 PM Kenny Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The noise is mainly on 160. Slight to no noise on 80/40, and no detection
> at AM VHF.
>
> Regards , Kenny K2KW
>
> On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:16 PM, AA5CT <jwin95@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Kenny,
>
> Did you whip out your VHF and UHF beams with an AM rx
> mode receiver once close to the suspect poles? That is the
> only way, and it is a conclusive way, that I have found to ID
> noisy power poles once the HF DF loop gets you in the
> area of the noise source.
>
> de AA5CT
>
> .
> .
> On Saturday, January 11, 2020, 9:03:04 PM CST, Kenny Silverman <
> kenny.k2kw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> KC4D,N3AC and N3CW went hunting with a KX3 and a DX Engineering Amplified
> RX loop and again didn’t find anything conclusive. Basically they said the
> loop performed about the same as one of the AM radios we have that’s fairly
> directional.
>
> We’ve been looking so many times that we’re getting frustrated. There are
> a few noisy clusters, but we can’t find a specific pole or house. Nor can
> we assess if the noisy areas are actually the key offender(s)
>
> Do we call in the clusters we found ? Or do we really need to pinpoint
> the source(s) better before we ask for crews to come out? We’re concerned
> about crying wolf and/or giving a list of more than a dozen poles for the
> power company to look at.
>
> Regards , Kenny K2KW
>
> P.S. the only success so far is fixing my subject line typo 🤓
>
>
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