[RFI] Pole mounted lightning arresters?

[Joseph Bouchard]

Agreed.  Mine showed up as spikes on the waterfall, I think it was a harmonic of about 10khz.  The Switching power supply was on the unit was a bigger problem than the fence wire itself.

> On Jan 12, 2021, at 10:36 AM, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Not likely - those buried fences (at least all that I've seen) operate at VLF, and no ticking.
> 
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>> On 1/12/2021 10:21 AM, Leonard Halvorsen via RFI wrote:
>> Or maybe one of those buried dog-collar fences?
>> lh
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>> 
>> <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Chuck et al
>>> I am not an authority on RFI.not at all..however the once/second
>>> tick-tick-tick sounds a little bit like an electric fence. For about 3-4
>>> yrs I had an active one almost underneath some of my antennas. ( a few feet
>>> away in spots). Near drove me crazy.(crazier?)..it was much louder on 160m
>>> (S9+++) than it was on 2m (even with a big yagi aimed right at it.maybe s1
>>> on 2m).  Levels did go up and down depending on several factors I won't
>>> bore all you with. The noise blanker helped a lot, however I am primarily a
>>> contester and afull band of loud signals and a NB don't play well together.
>>> Thankfully, that neighbour moved away and the new owner does not (at this
>>> time) intend to reactivate it. Are you sure it's something up a pole?
>>> Could it be an e-fence being re-radiated somehow?
>>> 
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