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By law utilities are required to track down and eliminate (to the best of their ability) rf noise. I don't know who your providers are but any decent size power company should have a dude on staff trained on tracking down noise with what our guys call a "sniffer".

You could go on a walk or drive with an AM radio as sp5it mentioned. When you think you've located the pole... strike it with a hammer. (This is not a guarantee) but if your noise fluctuates you found it. Get a pole # and contact your utility. This will help them to quickly verify and troubleshoot the problem. Old porcelain cutouts, lightning arrestors, insulators are notorious for cracking over time... holding moisture and dirt... and tracking. This tracking emits rf trash. Do more searching and stay on them (power co) they should fix the problem eventually..
Good luck

<blockquote data-quote="Blackcat630" data-source="post: 804056" data-attributes="member: 31373">By law utilities are required to track down and eliminate (to the best of their ability) rf noise. I don&#039;t know who your providers are but any decent size power company should have a dude on staff trained on tracking down noise with what our guys call a &quot;sniffer&quot;.You could go on a walk or drive with an AM radio as sp5it mentioned. When you think you&#039;ve located the pole... strike it with a hammer. (This is not a guarantee) but if your noise fluctuates you found it. Get a pole # and contact your utility. This will help them to quickly verify and troubleshoot the problem. Old porcelain cutouts, lightning arrestors, insulators are notorious for cracking over time... holding moisture and dirt... and tracking. This tracking emits rf trash. Do more searching and stay on them (power co) they should fix the problem eventually..Good luck</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blackcat630, post: 804056, member: 31373"] By law utilities are required to track down and eliminate (to the best of their ability) rf noise. I don't know who your providers are but any decent size power company should have a dude on staff trained on tracking down noise with what our guys call a "sniffer". You could go on a walk or drive with an AM radio as sp5it mentioned. When you think you've located the pole... strike it with a hammer. (This is not a guarantee) but if your noise fluctuates you found it. Get a pole # and contact your utility. This will help them to quickly verify and troubleshoot the problem. Old porcelain cutouts, lightning arrestors, insulators are notorious for cracking over time... holding moisture and dirt... and tracking. This tracking emits rf trash. Do more searching and stay on them (power co) they should fix the problem eventually.. Good luck [/QUOTE]

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