Topband: BRUTE FORCE

[W5JR - Mike]

Very, very dangerous to whack a wooden utility pole. Loose hardware, rotted pole, poor ground, loose back guy - all sorts of ways to be injured. Let the utility company check it. 

tnx
Mike

On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:06 PM, "Bill and Liz McHugh" <magoo at isp.ca> wrote:

> As you get closer and closer to a series of poles you suspect might be the cause of your noise, take along an associate with a 20 lb sledge hammer.  Have him whack each pole while you listen for a change in the "sound" of the noise.  I can tell you that this method works....sometimes too well.  A friend who is now an SK once hit the suspect pole a good one with the result that the hardware and the line parted company with associated fireworks.  Needless to say, that pole received a complete set of new hardware and the noise disappeared.
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> 73, Bill VE3CSK
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