On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:33:55 +0000, Michael wrote:

I live in town, three blocks from a failing transformer. At night you
can see it arcing continuously. This produces an S8 noise level on my
Icom 718. The power company has been completely uncooperative now for 6
months of my complaining.

Even though I was warned that a loop antenna would not help with a noise
source this close, I put up a 75 meter full wave loop anyway. I was
desperate.


I have had excellent results with eliminating urban near field RF noise
with loop antennas such as my T2FD. Went from s7 noise floor to almost
nothing. Desirable signals went from S7 to S6, but S7 in a S7 noise floor
is not anywhere usable as a S6 in a near quite noise floor!

Also, if the arc is visible on the xformer, I'd call the fire dept