[NLRS] 6m and up noise

[Scott Blixt]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Gerald wrote:

> Power companies can be defensive about line noise because lots of
> "noise" can come from industrial sources as well as from things like
> power line home digital networks. Many a power line noise source has
> been traced to a home door bell transformer thermal protector or a
> thermostat on an aquarium heater. Power companies often are defensive
> because they don't hear noise in their FM radios in their line trucks
> and don't understand AM vs FM vs SSB reception. They sometimes don't
> understand that while they don't hear noise on FM, they also sometimes
> don't hear signal because of the noise. In bad cases, when the  
> noise can
> be shown (with the hand held UHF yagi) to be coming from power poles
> uniquely and the power company doesn't cooperate, the FCC can get
> involved and power companies have been known to have been cited by the
> FCC for excessive noise. Though that doesn't seem to work for BPL.


Another part of the reason is that most noise that hams complain  
about is not power company related. At Xcel, we have a guy who does  
nothing but interference locating. Yes, sometimes we are at fault and  
we do our best to fix the problem. Its always fun when the complainer  
thinks he knows more about it than our guy. Yes, I may be a bit bias.  
I spent plenty of time doing INT finding at another company. So often  
its in somebodys house or in an industrial area. There is nothing we  
can do about that. All the power company has to do is fix trouble  
that is coming from the power lines. Not something that is coming  
from somewhere else or coming in over the lines from a private  
source. Dont be so quick to blame the power company or power lines.  
It does help when you can pin point it yourself and help our guy out  
a bit.


Scott Blixt
ka0jwc
A Minnesota Mad Man
sblixt at myclearwave.net

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