Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.

The local cb'ers, hams and I have always had severe power line noises.
Any where from below the AM Broadcast Band into the VHF Hi Band.

Calls to the power company went in vain. From all the kings men and horses.

Well after one good call to the power company accusing them of purposely
installing noisey power grid system, and having Aligns from the planet
Cone Head work for them, I hung up in discuss.

Saturday morning I woke up to the Rosters Call, at about 5 AM, the alarm
clock was dead no lights no power! I turned on the scanner near the bed,
yep no power!

The house is a little cold but livable with a jacket. My emergency back
up no **** flashlight is deader then flatten snails in the driveway. Oh
good! I turn on my battery operated shortwave radio, runs off 115 VAC or
D Cell Batteries. Nothing about anyone loosing power or any major power
grid problems off the radio....

So I get the bright ideaer to drive around and see all who ain't got
power. A few mins later I realize its just my street and all the rest of
the streets have power to the tower. Looking to where my street high
voltage lines hook up to the main high voltage wires down the street, I
see the Circuit Breaker Coily looking thing dangling a wire about a foot
long, indicating the circuit breakers blew open, both of them. Then I am
thinking one of the step down transformers must have shorted or blown
up, or something went real wrong, on my street. Or someone has a Dooms
Day Linear and I don't know about it!

On my old phone (doesn't need wall power to work) calling the power
company. Then I notice the power company out there with a crew of guys
working the power lines, I hang up not wanting to listen to the power
company machine answering system any more.

These guys removed and replaced 3 step down transformers, and added in a
very large high voltage capacitor across the high voltage lines.

As power was turned on about 10 AM, I turned on the radios, man what a
clean NO noise reception. Usually hearing a S3 to S6 noise level, now
the S meter sets on Zero. I could hear a electric fence in the
background there somewhere. Stations from Los Angles where now heard in
the clear.
160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 11 meters had no noise! Bitchen!

The point off all this is, Its a good call to know the circuit your on,
that is the high voltage run, the highest wires that feed the large pole
transformers that step down the 14 KV VAC power to 220 VAC for house
use. If you know how its laid out you can drive around and sample noise
levels. As the other streets didn't have the noise, just my street. Just
the one little system of high voltage run was noisy than all get out.
But now is super quiet. Not real hard to make a map of the different
high voltage circuits in a neighborhood.

Jay in the Mojave

Jay in the Mojave wrote:
Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.


snip for brevity

Hello Jay:

It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will you
do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:28:30 -0700, Jay in the Mojave
wrote:

Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.

congrats

"one useless man is disgrace 2 become a law firm 3 or more become a congress"
adams

woger you are a Congress all in your own head

http://kb9rqz.bravejournal.com/

and get ou the newly recovered KB9RQZ.blogspot.com as well

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Jay in the Mojave wrote:
Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.


snip for brevity

Hello Jay:

It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will you
do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?
Yes.


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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:01:47 -0500, "BPL is Your Friend"
wrote:

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|"Steveo" wrote in message
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| Jay in the Mojave wrote:
| Hello All:
|
| I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
| line noise.
|
|
| snip for brevity
|
| Hello Jay:
|
| It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will you
| do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?
|Yes.
|------------

You got to be kidding?

james

"BPL is Your Friend" wrote:
"Steveo" wrote in message
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Jay in the Mojave wrote:
Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.


snip for brevity

Hello Jay:

It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will
you do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?

Yes.

It won't be a problem for you, lloyd.

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:01:47 -0500, "BPL is Your Friend"
wrote:

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|"Steveo" wrote in message
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| Jay in the Mojave wrote:
| Hello All:
|
| I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major
| power line noise.
|
|
| snip for brevity
|
| Hello Jay:
|
| It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will
| you do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?

|Yes.
|------------

You got to be kidding?

james

He'd have to have an antenna to notice.

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Steveo wrote:

Jay in the Mojave wrote:

Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.



snip for brevity

Hello Jay:

It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will you
do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?


Hello Steveo:

I don't really think so. Its ****ing in the wind technology. Its a add
on goof ball scheme, that getting more attention then BPL has done good.
Anytime you modify a system for something other than it was designed for
your going to run into big problems. Right off the Bat the ARRL is
measuring the RF Signal/Interference levels from BPL and even sueing the
FCC over all this. Look at http:www.arrl.org for more details.

A power grid system has a number of maintenance crew who keep it
running. What are the equipment, installation, training, test equipment,
maintenance costs? And they are going to compete in a home internet
sever business, that get $9.98 a house?

And what about the nut balls that are going to shoot out the BPL
equipment, and then mistake a brand new transformer like I got, for BPL
equipment? Oh man! What about near by interference from a ham or cb
operator, you know some of the boys run pretty impressive steam.

With new fiber optics and who know what else is coming that is new and
will pass high speed electrons even faster that the Fiber Optics pass
photons. Maybe even a wireless system will be put into use.

I found it kind of funny reading some of the material on BPL, kind of
like some of those guys all ready have their mind made up before its all
up and running. Any new design must be tested and under real world
conditions, like noisy transformers, lightening, drunks running into
telephone poles, High Voltage leaking into their equipment, rain, snow
high winds with ice, Ham Radio Mucho Power Inc types, and a bunch of
other things.

If the countries power grids are in bad shape I'd say that even makes
things worst. Remember the power outage in NY City a while back. They
will have state and federal authorities breathing down their necks with
more power outages.

I would list BPL, in with the Edsel, Probation, X wives, ****ing into
the wind, flat spare tires, morse code learning tapes, AOL, Lead Paint,
quick sand, trusting polications, 9th grade european history, losing
your car keys, having nut cake hackers copy your computer data over BPL
to buy them a new car, Ordering new LMR 400 coax and getting date code
1968 Radio Shack RG58C coax, buying that new linear off E-Bay and only
measuring 125 watts out after the guy told you it would do 550 watts on
his Mickey Mouse Dorsey CB'er guy wish watt meter, and much more.

Jay in the Mojave

Jay in the Mojave wrote:
Steveo wrote:

Jay in the Mojave wrote:

Hello All:

I thought you all might like to hear how i got rid of some major power
line noise.



snip for brevity

Hello Jay:

It's nice to have that noise gone out of your ears no doubt. What will
you do with BPL? Is that really gonna happen?


Hello Steveo:

I don't really think so. Its ****ing in the wind technology. Its a add
on goof ball scheme, that getting more attention then BPL has done good.
Anytime you modify a system for something other than it was designed for
your going to run into big problems. Right off the Bat the ARRL is
measuring the RF Signal/Interference levels from BPL and even sueing the
FCC over all this. Look at http:www.arrl.org for more details.

A power grid system has a number of maintenance crew who keep it
running. What are the equipment, installation, training, test equipment,
maintenance costs? And they are going to compete in a home internet
sever business, that get $9.98 a house?

And what about the nut balls that are going to shoot out the BPL
equipment, and then mistake a brand new transformer like I got, for BPL
equipment? Oh man! What about near by interference from a ham or cb
operator, you know some of the boys run pretty impressive steam.

With new fiber optics and who know what else is coming that is new and
will pass high speed electrons even faster that the Fiber Optics pass
photons. Maybe even a wireless system will be put into use.

I found it kind of funny reading some of the material on BPL, kind of
like some of those guys all ready have their mind made up before its all
up and running. Any new design must be tested and under real world
conditions, like noisy transformers, lightening, drunks running into
telephone poles, High Voltage leaking into their equipment, rain, snow
high winds with ice, Ham Radio Mucho Power Inc types, and a bunch of
other things.

If the countries power grids are in bad shape I'd say that even makes
things worst. Remember the power outage in NY City a while back. They
will have state and federal authorities breathing down their necks with
more power outages.

I would list BPL, in with the Edsel, Probation, X wives, ****ing into
the wind, flat spare tires, morse code learning tapes, AOL, Lead Paint,
quick sand, trusting polications, 9th grade european history, losing
your car keys, having nut cake hackers copy your computer data over BPL
to buy them a new car, Ordering new LMR 400 coax and getting date code
1968 Radio Shack RG58C coax, buying that new linear off E-Bay and only
measuring 125 watts out after the guy told you it would do 550 watts on
his Mickey Mouse Dorsey CB'er guy wish watt meter, and much more.

Jay in the Mojave


Hello Jay

Oh man you got long winded that time and it got better with every
sentence/paragraph. I hope you're right about the flat spare tire BPL
analogy. It boils down to how much cash can they pocket from it and to hell
with the amateur radio enthusiast complaining about it.

I understand it sounds like a bee hive in your ear.

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Hello Steveo:
"Steveo" I understand it sounds like a bee hive in your ear.

Look at: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/

Theres all kinds of good stuff there on BPL

Jay in the Mojave