This area is about as rural as it gets, and no, it still isn't normal. Most
likely cause of interference around rain/snow is moisture bridging gaps
between cracks or other flaws in insulators. Until its found you won't know
though.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
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AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Harmon [mailto:k6xyz@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 22:17
> To: Jimk8mr@aol.com; rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RFI] Snow and Power Lines
>
> I dunno how normal this is but being rural.....it happens.
> The power folks say they would be happy to fix it but because of the soft
> ground they can't get to any poles that are beyond reach of the lift truck
> parked in the street...ie, the ground is too soft to support the truck.
> As to why it gets noisy....I can only guess but likely the cold temps
> makes
> things contract causing problems.
>
> Regards
>
> Dave Harmon
> K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
> Sperry, Ok.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Jimk8mr@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:24 PM
> To: rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: [RFI] Snow and Power Lines
>
> It is quite common at my QTH to have a light snowfall result in lots of
> power line QRN. After the snow stops, within a day or so things are
> basically
> back to normal, even though one can see snow laying on insulators and the
> like.
>
> Is this a natural, unavoidable outcome of snow, or does this sort of noise
> occur because of some preexisting problem (other than salt or other dirt,
> which would wash away in a rain), with the snow causing the problem to
> become apparent?
>
> Or in other words, is it worthwhile to try to track down and report such
> noise, or would that only result in me getting cold, and possibly the
> power
>
> company coming out to chase noise that is not their fault?
>
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
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