"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
Not really. Any decent power company will have an expert whose job it
is to find this stuff. Mine (a rural co-op) does not, although they
have tried very hard on several occasions. About the time I got their
guy sort of trained, he was injured and retired. Subsequently, they
called in the guy from the local metropolitan company with his
specially equipped van and he found the problems almost immediately.

Wes:

I have previously pointed out that few to none of the electric utilities
have noise experts any longer. Since deregulation, none of them want to try
to justify the cost to their stockholders, and the accountants are firmly in
charge. Ask Riley Hollingsworth or Ed Hare if you are reluctant to take my
word. I have worked as an independent in this field since well before
deregulation, and have watched the demise of the "noise expert". There are
still a number of them active as private consultants, and there is plenty of
work out here to keep all of us busy, but if there is still one employed by
a utility company, I would sure like to know his name and the name of the
utility, because I can no longer identify one from my lists.

Rick:

See:

http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/power_line_handbook/

on the ARRL web site for further guidance.

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Crazy George
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:53:49 -0600, "Crazy George"
wrote:

|"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
| Not really. Any decent power company will have an expert whose job it
| is to find this stuff. Mine (a rural co-op) does not, although they
| have tried very hard on several occasions. About the time I got their
| guy sort of trained, he was injured and retired. Subsequently, they
| called in the guy from the local metropolitan company with his
| specially equipped van and he found the problems almost immediately.
|
|Wes:
|
|I have previously pointed out that few to none of the electric utilities
|have noise experts any longer. Since deregulation, none of them want to try
|to justify the cost to their stockholders, and the accountants are firmly in
|charge. Ask Riley Hollingsworth or Ed Hare if you are reluctant to take my
|word. I have worked as an independent in this field since well before
|deregulation, and have watched the demise of the "noise expert". There are
|still a number of them active as private consultants, and there is plenty of
|work out here to keep all of us busy, but if there is still one employed by
|a utility company, I would sure like to know his name and the name of the
|utility, because I can no longer identify one from my lists.

It's been a couple of years but Tucson Electric Power was the one.
|
|Rick:
|
|See:
|
|http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/power_line_handbook/
|
|on the ARRL web site for further guidance.