[RFI] Identify this pole hardware

[Kelly Johnson]

I'll have to post another picture.  One of those boxes looks like it
has blown apart and there is a multi-wire cable dangling up there as
well.  The multi-wire cable could have been there before I suppose,
but...one of those boxes definitely looks like it blew apart.  You can
see the two halves of the box separated.  I'll post another picture or
two tomorrow.  Two neighbors told me the bang came from that pole.
One neighbor told me that he could hear something arc'ing on that pole
just before it blew.  Something on that pole blew and it sure appears
to be that box.


On 5/30/07, Tom Rauch <w8ji at contesting.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me what these little black boxes attached
> > to powerline
> > poles around my house are?  I suspect that one of them is
> > a source of
> > RFI.
>
> The CATV line is the second line up. You can see the
> splitters on that line in picture 3.
>
> The black boxes are on what appears to be the telephone
> line, and they have a standard numbering system used by the
> telephone company on them.
>
> None of these would have anything to do with a loud pop and
> the lights going off.
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