[SADXA] Trico RFI Problem

[Lawrence Godek]

Fantastic!  Wouldn't it be nice if every power company took such action
without having to almost go to court over these incidences.  Again,
congrats on getting a nice quiet band to listen to.

Larry
W0OGH
Somewhere in Cochise County.

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Gene K5GS <k5gs at arrl.net> wrote:

>
> On the afternoon of Thursday Feb 1st I sent an e-mail to Trico's Dave Walk
> (WL7BHR) to report RFI across 15m and some on 17m.   The noise peaked to
> the west, a square wave with distorted tops, whose pulse repetition rate
> stayed constant, 24 hours a day, it's been there for months. Dave came to
> the house the next morning and took readings.
>
> I suspected either a close-in neighbor's solar system or the Trico
> transformer near the house where I heard the noise on a BC band radio. Dave
> had a Line Tech come out to open 2 transformers on the road and eliminated
> them as the source, although he could still see the noise on his scope.
>
> For several days this week Dave drove around the area, he found a noisy
> TEP pole, and a noisy Trico pole.  Trico serviced their pole on Thursday
> Feb 8th, but the 15m RFI was still there.  Dave called me later in the day
> on Thursday to report he found what he thought was the true noise source
> out on Decker and Potvin, which is due west of me.
>
> On Friday morning, Dave called to report a line crew is at the suspect
> pole and fixed an obvious arcing problem.  With Dave on the telephone I
> came up on 15, brought the antenna to due west to a quiet band.
>
> Dave stopped by with a map that showed the poles he inspected over the
> week and location of the problem pole.
>
> I've never heard of anyone getting this kind of service from a power
> company on an RFI complaint.
>
> Cheers,
> GS K5GS
>
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