[NJARC] Interference, Solving it Yourself

[Pete Malvasi]

BUT a small add on, after Hurricane Sandy we were the last neighborhood to be restored after 2 weeks. Some people still say its because of that "loudmouth" who complained about the radiation.  Another case of what have you done for me lately. 

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> On Mar 16, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Pete Malvasi <pmalvasi at aol.com> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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>> 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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