[RFI] Identify this pole hardware

[Bill NY9H]

I would hate to have been on the phone... if that is what blew.
Maybe a little bit of  5 kv dropped down thru the 220 into the phone lines ???
bill


At 12:02 PM 5/30/2007, Kelly Johnson wrote:
>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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