A friend of mine had same issues a couple of years ago here in Maine, turned out it was marijuana growers using non approved chinese grow lights brought in illegally through Canada and being sold in Portland, ME. We put an end to that, the FCC deputised my friend...even got in the Portland newspaper. 73 de Jose Douglas KB1TCD
Sent from my iPad > On Aug 21, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Phil Kane <k2...@kanafi.org> wrote: > > On 8/21/2020 10:36 AM, ab2tc wrote: > >> Thanks for your response and I did receive several private E-mails as well. >> It sounds like a phone call to the power company should be my next move. If >> I just could find a way to get to a live person without going through a >> million automated responses and interminable waits! > > In another life when I was with the San Francisco office of the FCC, I > used to refer IX calls to Pacific Gas & Electric in California and my > contact there was Jim Gillespie in General Construction. Jim was a > great help, and I used to kid him that if this was too much work for him > he could always go back to washing insulators! His counterpart at > Southern California Edison was also well-known as an IX-finder. We're > all retired from IX-chasing now and I wouldn't have any idea who to > refer such calls to today. > > As Ken Brown (W2KB) has pointed out over the years, it's to the > advantage of the utility to find and fix such leaks (if that is the > problem) because it loses money to have energy delivered to a non-paying > load. > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to kb1...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
