[Elecraft] OT: RF interference from grow lights (maybe).

[Phil Kane]

On 8/21/2020 10:36 AM, ab2tc wrote:

> Thanks for your response and I did receive several private E-mails as well.
> It sounds like a phone call to the power company should be my next move. If
> I just could find a way to get to a live person without going through a
> million automated responses and interminable waits!

In another life when I was with the San Francisco office of the FCC, I
used to refer IX calls to Pacific Gas & Electric in California and my
contact there was Jim Gillespie in General Construction.  Jim was a
great help, and I used to kid him that if this was too much work for him
he could always go back to washing insulators!  His counterpart at
Southern California Edison was also well-known as an IX-finder.  We're
all retired from IX-chasing now and I wouldn't have any idea who to
refer such calls to today.

As Ken Brown (W2KB) has pointed out over the years, it's to the
advantage of the utility to find and fix such leaks (if that is the
problem) because it loses money to have energy delivered to a non-paying
load.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon