[Elecraft] OT: K3 and High Tension Wires

[Jim Brown]

Lew,

That's in direct conflict with everything I've seen from RFI engineers. 
Over the years, I've seen plenty of reports of hardware in the power 
system failing in a mode that causes it to arc. See 
http://www.arrl.org/power-line-noise for a great discussion of all sorts 
of RF noise, including power line noise. At least 10 years ago, I bought 
and read "AC Power Interference Handbook" by Marv Loftness, a field 
engineer who specialized in that work. He said that virtually all power 
line noise is caused by SOMETHING arcing.

73, Jim K9YC

On Tue,3/15/2016 3:35 PM, Lewis Phelps wrote:
> Drawing from a decade of experience working as head of the PR department for a major electric utility (a long time ago), I’d like to suggest that arcing per se should not be a problem at any time with any power line if it is functioning properly. The individual transmission wires are spaced far enough apart that arcing shouldn’t be possible.