I texted the guy I bought my house from who worked for Entergy, to stop by some day and help me get the report to the right people at the company. He stopped by a couple days later on his way home from work. I showed him what I had found when I took a hammer to the pole in my back yard. When struck, the noise increased dramatically. He went up in his bucket and saw a potential problem, but since he was alone, he could do nothing at the time.
He looked around and found a HV line that had been knocked off it's top of pole insulator just one span away and was lying on a lower wooden cross arm. He said he had seen enough and would get it reported.
Two days later, 3 bucket trucks and about 10 employees showed up. They found the offending problem by listening on their cell phone as I feed them the audio from my scanner while they tapped all the HV terminations until it went crazy. They found the problems pretty quickly as several connections were loose.
After fixing that and the fallen HV line, they used my scanner and checked about a block in each direction from my house and found no less then 3 broken HV insulators and a HV line splice across a main street that had come partially apart and was internally arcing wildly.
They were so happy I called as they were able to fix everything in the daylight and getting into back yards with bucket trucks during a very dry spell. In about 3 hours they were done.
One neighbor came out and thanked them as she could now listen the the Razorback games play-by-play guys on the local AM radio station while watching the game on TV since the static was now gone.
As for my reception, all was really quiet now, electrical noise-wise. Been that way for many years now.
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