"Brian" wrote in message
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Well, I shut off the breaker again and went through room by room with my
portable as I switched them back on. The buzz was evident to some degree
throughout, but most notably in the room just where the service enters
the
house, and definately at the service panel. So, I guess that noise is
radiating from the powerline, throughout my house, and into all my stuff?
I
don't know, this sucks. I had powerline issues at my last house that
never
got resolved, but this time my antenna is quiet, it's just noise in the
house. I'm not sure what my question is exactly, but does anyone have any
ideas?

-Brian



Hello Brian,
I had a similar problem and went through the same procedures you are going
through. Since the source of the problem in not in your house, it is
external. I took a very small portable, tuned it to an AM frequency where
there is no station transmitting, and started walking the neighborhood
listening for noise. I found a tremendous buzzing noise about a half mile
from my house and it was coming from a cluster of 3 power poles. I could
not identify which pole it was exactly because they were within a street
width of one another. I sent a letter to our local power company, drew them
a map of where the noise was coming from, and told them about the problem.
They responded in about one week, checked the area of the poles and
replaced a lightning arrestor on one of the poles. The noise source in my
house dropped from S9 plus to about S3, a dramatic improvement!

If you locate, as close as you can, the source of the problem, chances are
very good the power company will take care of it. Best of luck.

Al KA5JGV
San Antonio, Tx.