[Elecraft] Help identifying this RFI

Matt Zilmer mzilmer at roadrunner.com
Thu Jul 2 12:47:35 EDT 2015


That appears to be exactly what was happening.  I assumed that
conducted RFI is pretty well snubbed by whatever distribution
transformers were in between.

73,
matt
W6NIA

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:34:28 -0700, you wrote:

>On Thu,7/2/2015 7:20 AM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
>>   In a staight line, this
>> transformer problem was almost 1/2 mile away, and not even on the same
>> distribution circuit we're on here.
>
>Remember that power lines RADIATE. Although I have no scientific 
>evidence to back it up, I suspect that most noise we hear from power 
>lines is the result of radiation of the noise current -- that is, the 
>power wiring near the noise source acts as a transmitting antenna.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
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