On 9/10/2020 4:19 PM, David Gilbert wrote: > Malaysia gets a lot of rain, things are wet much of the time, and back > then (at least 30 years ago) many of the electrical insulators on the > overhead power lines were dirty with pollution. I could see constant > arcing across dozens of insulators.
Yet one of the "cures" of QRM from electrical lines is to wash the insulators. Many large utilities have a specialized vehicle for that. We have buried utilities here so there's no insulators to wash.... 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
