Lew,

That's in direct conflict with everything I've seen from RFI engineers. Over the years, I've seen plenty of reports of hardware in the power system failing in a mode that causes it to arc. See http://www.arrl.org/power-line-noise for a great discussion of all sorts of RF noise, including power line noise. At least 10 years ago, I bought and read "AC Power Interference Handbook" by Marv Loftness, a field engineer who specialized in that work. He said that virtually all power line noise is caused by SOMETHING arcing.

73, Jim K9YC

On Tue,3/15/2016 3:35 PM, Lewis Phelps wrote:
Drawing from a decade of experience working as head of the PR department for a 
major electric utility (a long time ago), I’d like to suggest that arcing per 
se should not be a problem at any time with any power line if it is functioning 
properly. The individual transmission wires are spaced far enough apart that 
arcing shouldn’t be possible.

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