[Elecraft] Help identifying this RFI

[bs usb]

An arching transformer is just a spark gap transmitter with a super long 
antenna attached.  Much lesser setups were used decades ago and provided 
global communications.

Matt Zilmer wrote:
> 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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