[NJARC] Interference, Solving it Yourself

[Pete Malvasi]

After years of unsuccessfully battling Rockland Electric who ignored FCC letters and lots of Arrl evidence, I send a paper around 200 houses along the power line to alert them to radiation coming off the lines compete with spectrum analyzer screen shots and recordings of the buzzing on a special Facebook page. In then visited people with my hand held yagi and am receiver and let them hear the "radiation" when I pointed to the lines in back of their property.  Ended up getting a town Meeting with 100 people who demanded action. They booed the power company rep and it was like a scene from Frankenstein with the town people looking to run out the monster. I was even hugged by several women thanking me for standing up for our health. Some asked me about my antennas but I showed them how I had to comply with FCC near field radiation standards and also showed them FCC letters to the CEO of the power company charging them with excessive unintended radiation. 

They replaces the insulator banks on 4 towers a month after.  Now enjoy a mostly quiet QTH. 

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> On Mar 16, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 both PSE+G and JCP&L 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
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