Cecil Moore wrote:
John Smith wrote:
Did you ever manage to have it "fixed?"
How did you manage it? Who did you report it to?

The power pole ground wire didn't appear to be
broken, just radiating like crazy. I managed
it by transmitting on the vertical and receiving
on the dipole. In the process of A/B comparisons,
I discovered that the vertical was never better
than the dipole and usually worse. The EZNEC
comparisons are on my web page at:

http://www.w5dxp.com/dipvsver.htm

To be fair, since receiving was limited to East/
West QSOs, the Extended Zepp beat the socks off
the vertical.

On 40m, most run horiz. Horiz-to-horiz is always going to beat
horiz-to-vert.

Knowing you and your strong personality (at least from the news group) I
thought you might had been able to secure a fix from the power
companies' noise emissions. Was just wondering, and probably wouldn't
have helped with my problem anyway ...

Right now, I have an issue with a noise source I cannot even pinpoint
and is very broadband (and no, it is not BPL -- already ruled that out,
lol.) Noise is for blocks and remains fairly constant in strength.
This would lead me to think it was powerlines; however, the powerlines
are all underground! Which leads me to believe some noise IS on the
powerlines and the radiation is coming from the wiring in each
individual home/business. However, a scope, properly isolated and
hooked to my wiring doesn't give me a picture I can correlate to ... :-(

If it ain't one thing, it is another ... keeps life interesting, I guess.

Regards,
JS