[BC] in *backyards*

[Ron Castro]

Yes, indeed, we have power poles in many back yards.  Mostly low voltage (in 
power company circles), IIRC 9 kV overhead and 240 V to feed the houses.  A 
good friend of mine runs a 6-meter EME array less than 100 yards from some 
huge power transmission towers that cross his property.  I believe the 
voltage in them is around 130 kV, and they're close enough to cause arcing 
in pipes when he hauls them up the tower, so he grounds the pipes with 
battery jumper cables when he works on them.

Around here, gas comes by underground pipe from the utility company, but 
many rural homes (and transmitter sites) have 500 gallon LP tanks.

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Warner" <clive at citiria.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: [BC] in *backyards*


>> 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.
>
> Power poles in *backyards*??? Pardon me while I climb back on my chair...
> Is this one of those specially American things like, cars that invariably
> explode when they fall off cliffs, houses that explode throwing people in
> all directions, and guns that never run out of bullets?
> I suppose that the same home owners might also have gas storage tanks for
> the gas company also in their back yards, and perhaps a personal cell 
> array
> like some idiots down the road from me, here in sunny Mexico?
> Clive. (Feeling faint.)
>
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