[RFI] Fw: Street Light RFI

[Alan Robinson]

Here is a story about success with National RF's 80m HFDF Loop in locating RFI.  In addition to being the local utility intereference locator, Stuart is a licensed ham.

Alan, W4LKE




----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:53 AM
Subject: Street Light RFI


Hi Alan,

 

It was nice catching up with you, however briefly it was, Monday evening. I went back this morning (before sunrise) with the National RF equipment and it worked like a gem. It was raining at first so I had to remain in my car. The null direction wasn't quite pointing at the suspect pole. The customer brought me an umbrella and I walked closer to the pole which increased the signal strength as I suspected it would but the null still did not aimed directly at the pole which bothered me so I walked on down the street to find that the signal strength increased and I had to turn down the gain on the (Radar Engineers) 240. Low and behold I got a better null indicating the next street light down the street. Then as we discussed the other night light began to visibly work erratically correlating with the display on the 240 .

 

As always, thanks for the opportunity to bounce these things off of you.

 

Cheers and 73,

 

Stuart Sloan 









Utility Interference Locator