[RFI] Identify this pole hardware

[Kelly Johnson]

Yes, this is what I'm now suspecting.  Maybe power somehow arc'd to
this box and caused it to blow.  If this is true, then the arc may
still be there and my noise problem may come back once temperatures
rise again.  The last time I heard noise from that pole was 1 week
ago.

Yes, it sounded like a gunshot when it blew.

I talked to PG&E yesterday and they have no report of any permanent
outage in the neighborhood so they aren't treating this like an
emergency.  So far, they haven't been out to look at the pole.

I'm thinking of dropping by the neighbor whose address number is on
the box that appears to be blown and ask them if their phone line is
down.



On 5/30/07, Bill NY9H <ny9h at arrl.net> wrote:
> 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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