Hi All. Some may have been following my hunt. Weeks ago I triangulated
with monitoring retransmitted audio from my station and matching by
listening to both it and my 2m HT on AM with tape measure yagi which
lead me to the pole in my back yard. To make sure I was tracking the
right noise. It got dark that day and the arc was almost non existent
for weeks after that day until yesterday.
This morning with the arc still active, I got out my W1TRC/QST
Ultrasonic dish. I took the picture on the top of my QRZ page of the
pole and a red circle of where I am hearing the arc. 180 degrees on the
other side of the pole I hear nothing but getting in the spot where the
picture was taken, I hear it the strongest. The picture is not good due
to sun angle. Will try to take another soon.
In the red circle is bracing hardware, turnbuckles, and an insulator. I
do not think its the insulator as I cannot hear the arc on the other
side of the pole where the insulator is located.
Before I contact the power co, will check aiming of my dish & take a
better picture. The dishes aim in the past though has been spot on.
My small local util has stated they will get TVA out (the distributor
that has RFI location equipment) but I fear with the highly intermittent
nature of this arc, it will be gone when they get here.
So my question is, when I recheck the dish and do another spot check, is
it too much to ask the util to tighten the hardware in the circle and
apply dielectric grease? They used grease on other poles and it seems to
help. Or should I risk having TVA verify my findings possibly waiting
weeks and they possibly (probably) arrive to no arc?
Are my findings reasonable enough? Any other suggestions?
It rained tonight and the arc has subsided. Prior to the rain it was a
whopping 25db over s9 on 80 meters although one end of my doublet is
within feet of the pole. Another doublet is further away but its almost
as strong. If it had not rained, I was going to go out in the dark and
see if I could see the arc as there is no street light back there.
Thanks,
Chuck
AF4O
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