Mark,

Start with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_analysis

and then spend some time searching. There's hundreds of technical papers and 
interesting details. Definitely time nut material.

/tvb


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sims" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 10:27 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] Building a mains frequency monitor


> And that can be very interesting...  a while back I read some stories on how 
> the NSA, police, etc could find out where an audio recording was made by 
> correlating AC hum in the recording with logs that they had of the power 
> grids.  Apparently logging AC mains is rather popular among the spooky / law 
> enforcement types around the world (Britain appears to be rather fond of it).
> I did an experiment where I logged the AC mains at a few places around town 
> along with some audio recordings made in the same areas.  I used some simple 
> correlation software and could easily determine where and when the recordings 
> were made.
> -----------------
>> Phase noise? The line frequency shifts phase every time a major
> electrical load is added or dropped from the power line.
> 
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