[K3PZN-List] Power Line/RFI workshop in Baltimore

[Kevin P. Inscoe]

Got this from the Loudon County list:

 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:04:13 -0500
   From: "Norm Styer - AI2C" <ai2c@earthlink.net>
Subject: POWER LINE INTERFERENCE WORKSHOPS

From: K7LXC@aol.com 
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:37 PM
Subject:  RFI Workshop

REDUCE THE TIME SPENT SOLVING RADIO AND TV INTERFERENCE COMPLAINTS 

POWER LINE INTERFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Presented by RFI Services of Maryland

 
Course benefits: Utilities are under tremendous pressure to cut costs
while 
improving customer loyalty. This course provides comprehensive hands on
field 
experience included with classroom demonstrations that will reduce your
time 
spent on interference complaints. Participants will perform the most 
effective and efficient methods of pinpointing and eliminating power
line and 
customer owned electrical interference sources using a variety of
methods and 
equipment.

You will learn how to: Increase the efficiency of your present equipment
and 
improve with new equipment. Recognize the difference between an inside
and 
outside noise source, starting with the first phone contact. Understand
the 
causes and how to eliminate electrical interference problems. Recognize
the 
complaint source from other sources in the area, eliminating unnecessary 
repairs. Prevent problems beginning with construction.

Who should attend: This workshop is intended for technicians, linemen, 
engineers, operations and management personnel responsible for solving
RFI & 
TVI complaints. This includes those involved with design, operation, 
maintenance & construction and training on Utility T&D, Substation,
Cable TV, 
Telephone systems and customer information personnel.

The group will demonstrate a variety of techniques using the most
effective 
equipment available. The workshops include class and field equipment,
the 
most beneficial training available, and a Certificate of Completion. If
your 
company uses, manufactures, sells or has the need for interference
locating 
equipment, be a part of the most comprehensive classroom and field
training 
available. To give the personal attention necessary for training,
workshop 
attendance is limited and not open to vending. Don't miss this
opportunity.

Agenda:
What causes interference. Myths and Facts. The most common sources & how
to 
recognize them. Locating equipment & techniques. Basic and modern.
Correction 
and Prevention of RFI sources.

Power Line Interference Source Locating in the Field
Stop replacing insulators and transformers.  
Separate those inside and outside noise sources. 
Common customer sources and how to locate them.
Stories from the field. Field experiences.

Quotes from previous workshops:
* A comprehensive approach. The problems, the equipment and solutions
all 
presented in a "what really works" presentation… Not just theory. *
Mike took 
a highly technical, complex subject and made it simple and easy to 
understand.* It was great to have an instructor who not only knows the 
material, but also works the job full time. * Mike is very organized and 
keeps you interested. A very good speaker.  
* Since attending the workshop, I'm solving complaints in a fraction of
the 
time it took before.

About your instructors:
Mike Martin owns and operates the Consulting & RFI Locating firm called
RFI 
Services. He's been locating interference sources and training  Power & 
Telcom companies full time for over 20 years and solves an average of
500 
interference complaints a year. He takes advantage of the opportunity to
test 
all RFI locating equipment and makes recommendations to the
manufacturers for 
improvements. Mike has received acknowledgments in publications such as:
AC 
Power Interference Manual * Power Line Interference, A Practical
Handbook
* T&D Magazine and * The American Radio Relay League Journal. Mike is 
multi-licensed by the FCC and considered to be the most experienced 
Interference Investigator in the country.

Marv Loftness is the inventor of many RFI locating instruments,
including the 
indispensable Hotstick Line Sniffer. His personal research into the
causes 
and effects of power line noises and noise patterns on the oscilloscope
led 
to the development of these instruments and to the development of his
rapid 
locating system. For this research he was honored by the IEEE with a
Fellow 
Membership in their Power Engineering Society. Prior to his years as an
EMC 
engineer with BPA he was with the FAA as an electronics specialist, and
with 
Boeing, as a design engineer.  A graduate of Pacific Lutheran
University, he 
is author of AC Power Interference.

Spokane, WA April 9 & 10
Ramada Inn, Spokane International Airport   509-838-5211

Oklahoma City, OK  April 23 & 24 
Holiday Inn Oklahoma City Airport   800-622-7666

Baltimore, MD April 29 & 30
Holiday Inn BWI Airport 410-694-6021

~ke3vin
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