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Brian Donovan - K2AS All Messages By This Member #1084 I have made a couple of videos of the RFI I am experiencing, if anyone is interested. I shared these with W4DD, who has experienced this issue and helped others.? He agrees that it looks like power line HV arcing.? I am hoping to track it down to a pole before I call RG&E. There was a guy from RG&E who gave a presentation at RARA, maybe 15 years or so ago.? Unfortunately, it is not on RARAs website.? That would have been nice to re-view. -Brian
Joe Rowe All Messages By This Member #1085 Back in the 60's my father, WA8ZMS, and I ,WA8NZQ, had an RF problem that was corrected with a new transformer on the pole near our house. Joe AG2Y toggle quoted message Show quoted text -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Donovan - K2AS via groups.io Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2025 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [xarc] RFI Videos I have made a couple of videos of the RFI I am experiencing, if anyone is interested. I shared these with W4DD, who has experienced this issue and helped others. He agrees that it looks like power line HV arcing. I am hoping to track it down to a pole before I call RG&E. There was a guy from RG&E who gave a presentation at RARA, maybe 15 years or so ago. Unfortunately, it is not on RARAs website. That would have been nice to re-view. -Brian
vburolla All Messages By This Member #1089 My Story: During the mid sixties while I was stationed at Lockport Air Force Station, we had some serious noise problems at our GATR (ground to air transmitter receiver) site—I believe we had 20 channels of UHF equipment remoted to Fort Custer AFS in Michigan. I think it took us a week to sort everything out and got Niagara Mohawk to replace an arcing lightning arrester on one of the power poles to our site. Of course, at the time everyone was blaming us for not properly maintaining our equipment… LOL Vince
Brian Donovan - K2AS All Messages By This Member #1090 开云体育 Vince, Hopefully RG&E gets here that quick, but I doubt it.? Air Force probably gets a bit more attention than me.? I have narrowed it down to two poles.? #354 and #352, and I think both of them have a problem.? #354 is worse.? They are just west of Parson Acres.? Drive by with your AM radio on an empty frequency. I've read that bad lightning arrestors are usually the main culprit, with bad insulators another possible cause.? Rarely it might be arcing to some other metal such as bolts and staples. RG&E no longer has any info on reporting these issues on their website.? Even when you call the number that says "Talk to a Representative", you get to listen to a series of menu prompts about gas emergencies, power outages and paying your bill.? When I finally got to a person after the fourth menu, they told me I picked the wrong one.? It apparently is in the queue of some mystery department that has no phone?number. -- Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- k2as@... toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of vburolla via groups.io <vburolla@...> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2025 9:22 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xarc] RFI Videos ? My Story: During the mid sixties while I was stationed at Lockport Air Force Station, we had some serious noise problems at our GATR (ground to air transmitter receiver) site—I believe we had 20 channels of UHF equipment remoted to Fort Custer AFS in Michigan.? I think it took us a week to sort everything out and got Niagara Mohawk to replace an arcing lightning arrester on one of the power poles to our site.? Of course, at the time everyone was blaming us for not properly maintaining our equipment… LOL Vince

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