[Milsurplus] Interference, Do it Yourself

[Rob Flory]

I got a chuckle when I saw the WSJ article mentioned electric fences.

At my friend's 160m contest station, we had a lot of Beverage antennas, and
even one array of 3 Beverage antennas with 50dB of front to back ratio.
They were very sensitive.

The only interferer that was cooperative was the power company, and we had
to deal with 2 different companies as we were on the border of their
zones.We heard and found arcing lightning arrestors to be be the biggest
cultprit, and usually found them ourselves and gave the pole number to
their RFI people.  One was 9 miles away.

Ordinary citizens didn't want to hear about it, which led to my friend
going out in the middle of the night in rubber boots, shorting an electric
fence for his safety, and fixing the arcs himself.

Those were good times.

RF