A trick that you might try is that when you find an offending pole, give it a good whack with a sledgehammer to see if the noise changes. We tracked down a couple of poles that were throwing some serious RFI out, and that's how the power company guy verified where the problem was. Seems that the pole was put in in the 40's, and the rest of the hardware was about the same age.
On 8/21/2010 1:09 PM, Tony wrote: > > > Paul, > > That's a nice rig to have. I understand it's capable of AM mode as well > - add a small hand held 2 meter Yagi and you'll have one FB direction > finding RFI detector. > > Tony -K2MO > > >> I live near the Atlantic Ocean in "Slower Lower" Delaware. Our problem >> here is that during dry weather, we get salt spray on the power lines >> and transformers, leading to all sorts of noise. A good rain helps. >> >> I have a small Yaesu VR-500 wide band receiver. It works very well for >> tracking down RFI/EMI around the house as well. Good way to find >> offending "wall warts," and the like >> >> /paul W3FIs
