[BC] BPL flaws

[Fee Lee]

Don't hit the poles with a mallet!  We have a power company here that has a 
dept that goes out and locates power line noise for their customers so that 
their linesmen can effect repairs (only one of two power companies in the 
nation that has such a dept).  Well the guy who does this work for the power 
company used to hit poles with a sledgehammer to help zero in on the problem 
pole stopped doing so when he started to hit a pole with the sledge when he 
looked up and saw that the noise problem was caused by a small arc that had 
eaten most of the wire away from under a clamp, had he hit the pole with the 
sledge what little wire that still existed would probably have snapped and 
the wire would have fallen on him.  He never touches a pole again with a 
hammer.  This guy is such a expert on the subject of powerline noise 
problems that he has a small company that other power companies hired to 
help them located tough powerline noise problems.
                                           Fee Lee 

Ron Castro writes: 

> When I get my ham shack remodel finished, I'll probably be motivated.  Now 
> that the rain has finally ended, the noise will start back up as the poles 
> dry.  Even though the power is underground on my street, it hits a riser 
> and goes overhead a block away.  If I could get access to the poles, I 
> would bang them with a mallet to find the noise, but they're in peoples 
> back yards. 
> 
> I'll have to re-read that book by Marv Loftness on cleaning up power line 
> noise.  I think he has a new one out. 
> 
> Ron Castro
> Chief Technical Officer
> Results Radio, LLC 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "CBoone" <CBoone at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [BC] BPL flaws 
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> 
>> Time to get with Riley and have him get it corrected :) 
>> 
>> Chris 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:12 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: [BC] BPL flaws 
>>> 
>>> Aren't gas lines grounded?  Even if it's determined that they
>>> can send RF that way, it can still cause a problem.  I have
>>> significant noise problems from underground power lines that
>>> run in front of my house.  PG$E has never been able to fix
>>> the problem, and now with rotten band conditions, constant
>>> S-5 noise makes 20-10 meters hard to work. 
>>> 
>>> Ron Castro
>>> Chief Technical Officer
>>> Results Radio, LLC
>>  
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