hpk@vax135.UUCP (Howard Katseff) (01/02/86)
Back in November, I posted a message in this newsgroup about broadband noise (ranging from about 2 to 12 MHz) that would ruin my shortwave reception. I would like to thank the many people who responded. As a number of people suggested, I drove in my car with a portable receiver looking for the source. I was able to track the noise to a power company transformer sitting on one of their poles about a kilometer from my house. If I stood near the pole, I could hear it buzzing with the identical noise pattern that I heard from my receiver. I called the JCP&L (the local power utility) trouble number and reported the problem, giving the pole number (attached to the pole) and its location. Surprisingly, they came and fixed it that day. My conclusion is that JCP&L is indeed responsive to fixing these problems. Doing a bit of their work myself, by determining where the problem was, probably helped speed things up. Howard Katseff AT&T Bell Laboratories Holmdel, NJ 201 949-5337