all the noisey appliances in the neighborhood are vertically polarized?

A very large power transformer mounted on a pole at the edge of my
property has a 35 foot ground wire running down the pole about 100 ft
from my vertical. I suspect that is the source of the vertically
polarized noise.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



and no horizontal wires attached to it?
Is transformer producing noise? Or bad connections, arcing?
Mabee vertical antenna due to its pattern is "seeing" more noise than your
ladder fed wunderdipole?

I think there is a major misconception that verticals are more sensitive to
noise because the noise is "vertically polarized". Man made, appliance or
otherwise produced noise is "all kinds" polarized. It is the antenna's location
and radiation pattern that determines the amount of noise or S/N pick up.

Yuri