Hmmm ... what does go well with fried lineman s ? Perhaps a nice Merlot ?

I'm very glad you succeeded ! I hope you make some great discoveries DXing


Strength and Honor

"Burr" wrote in message
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Nice going, you can also use a small sludge hammer and bang on the poles
until you find the one right one.

Glad you got it done, I also got the help on a pole many years ago and
they were glad to help.

Burr

AL KA5JGV wrote:

After battling power line noise for about 3 months, I concluded that it
was
a power pole problem and decided to find it myself. I got a small AM
radio
with a ferrite rod stick antenna (not a vertical whip), for direction
finding, and started walking the neighborhood looking for noisy poles. I
got
a lot of strange looks from neighbors, but I tracked the source down to
one
of two poles, about a quarter-mile from my house.

I called the power company and success. It took them a couple of weeks
to
respond but on one of the poles they found a faulty lightning arrestor.
They
replaced it and the noise at my house went down from S9+ to about S3. An
improvement that makes listening be pleasurable again.

I found that being co-operative with the crew and not belittling or
blaming
them for the fault, was a big help. I would have offered them a 12-pack,
but
I didn't want to be responsible for a high-voltage fried electrician.

If you have horrible noise with a very strong 60 or 120 cycle buzz to
it,
it's probably a power line problem. Help the power company crew find it
and
they will take care of it for you.

Al KA5JGV
San Antonio, Tx.