[Elecraft] [OT] A Very Quiet Day

Phil Kane k2asp at kanafi.org
Fri Sep 11 13:00:35 EDT 2020


On 9/10/2020 4:19 PM, David Gilbert wrote:

> Malaysia gets a lot of rain, things are wet much of the time, and back
> then (at least 30 years ago) many of the electrical insulators on the
> overhead power lines were dirty with pollution.  I could see constant
> arcing across dozens of insulators.

Yet one of the "cures" of QRM from electrical lines is to wash the
insulators.  Many large utilities have a specialized vehicle for that.
We have buried utilities here so there's no insulators to wash....

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

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


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