[Elecraft] OT: K3 and High Tension Wires

[Scott Ellington]

The arcing that causes RFI is usually not from the power lines 
themselves, but various pieces of poorly bonded hardware NEAR the power 
lines.


73,

Scott  K9MA


On 3/16/2016 09:18, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> He did say that he was head of the PR department.
>
> On 3/15/2016 8:58 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
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Scott Ellington  K9MA
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