On Wed,3/16/2016 6:27 AM, Dave Olean wrote:
If the RF interference is caused by power line arcing, it’s going to get detected and fixed pretty quickly by the utility. If it’s there all the time, it very likely isn’t the power company at fault.
Here in Northern California where PG&E is our power utility, it is usually possible to get them to send a crew out to investigate and document an issue, but nearly impossible to get it fixed. NI6T, an EE with considerable experience in the matter, managed to get cozy with at least one PG&E investigator, and learned that managers of the department that FIXES these problems is rewarded in proportion to their annual budget that is NOT spent. In other words, they are incentivized to NOT fix problems.
Another local ham who is an attorney found that contacting the state agency regulating PGE got his problems fixed when PG&E had previously failed to do so.
Since the experience of both of these hams is directly related to business practices and the profit motive, one might reasonably suspect that they are at least somewhat universal throughout the industry.
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