[RFI] Power Outages...

[Dave (NK7Z)]

Howdy,

I swear, power outages are Gods gift to RFI hunting...  I have been 
meaning to track down a mess of RFI, (I suspect I know where it is 
originating from), until warmer or drier weather occurs.

Today we are in the midst of a freezing rain incident, with lots of 
little power outages, all around me.    The local power company provides 
an outage map...

The home I suspect of causing the RFI is about a block away.  He just 
lost power, and ALL of my RFI ended abruptly...

I will do a drive by once the roads get to where they are derivable 
again, in order to validate nothing is coming from that home.

Then once the RFI returns, and I see power has returned to his home, I 
will be able to focus on documenting that home further, then it will be 
ARRL labs time...

This will be the second report of the same location.  They cleaned it up 
when the ARRL sent them a letter, and it has been building again for the 
past few months again...  40, 80, 30, and 20 are all affected, with 10 
additional db of noise.

-- 
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist, RFI
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources