I'm having a problem with very strong, very broad noise that seems to be associated with wet conditions. We recently had two significant snowfalls, and of course everything was very wet as the snow m
Hi Matt, My initial thoughts are power line related, but if you have not done your home power off test, be sure to do it prior to calling the power company... It will go a long way in letting them kn
If it was not snowing at the time then it was likely dirty or damaged insulators on the primary power line. The noise could be conducted quite a distance on the primary wire so would cover a big area
My local experience was that the utility co was grateful for the heads-up. They found several nearly disintegrated lightning protectors that only looked OK from the ground. The said they would inevit
Had the local utility RFI guy over this morning. While they didn't find my main noises yet, they did replace a lightning arrestor on a transformer feeding a neighbor's house. He said these are virtua
Matt, If you live within a mile or two of any 100 to 500 KV power lines you may be getting corona noise. At my previous QTH I could count on the high pitched buzz any time it rained or snowed or even
Lee, This is possible. I have some transmission lines (don't know what voltage they are) and a substation a little less than a mile away. I just need to wait for conditions to get wet again, then I'm
Hi Guys, I had just the opposite thing happen to me here a few years ago, i.e. the power line noise only stopped whenever it'd rain outside! Turned-out that it was the power drop-off switch off of th
Well, that's the standard behavior for distribution-level HV - quiet when wet. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For