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.