[RFI] Source power pole located - but wonder which components most likely temperature sensitive

[K9MA]

On 1/29/2024 6:03 PM, David Eckhardt wrote:
> Well, it was sme 50 years ago.  So be it.........

I recall, about that time, trying to get my local utility to find a line 
noise problem. After the got a call from the FCC (!), when we went out 
on our evening noise tracking trip, we found power poles with new 
sledgehammer dents in them, no doubt produced by the utility. I 
eventually tracked it down to a lightning arrestor, using a little 
homebrew receiver. When the lineman finally showed up, I was standing 
nearby listening to that receiver. As soon as he pulled the lead off 
that arrestor, the noise stopped, and he said he could see a carbon 
track on it. Ever since then, I've always tried to be present when the 
repair was attempted, and it has usually worked.

Alas, my utility remains equally clueless about tracking and fixing 
noise sources, though I haven't seen evidence of sledgehammers since then.

73,

Scott K9MA

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