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I had a Baofang UV5R set on 146.820, and an old Maxon re purposed
public service radio tuned to a 70cm Ham freq, and a Kenwood TM281
tuned to 146.820. None of the radios heard any of that.<br>
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But Computer speaker systems inside the house had quite the GROWLLLL
going on. I noticed the power glitch a few times but the state was
spraying Chloride on the roads so I dismissed the light show at
first as a salt/chloride truck. THEN I caught the glitch and the arc
at the same time and had a Holy STUFF moment :-).<br>
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They came out and moved some wires around that day about noon, then
again at 7pm, and were out again yesterday to move some stuff AGAIN
:-).<br>
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This is an old rotten Ceder pole line here that the Municipal power
guys say they "inherited from Edison"....the Postmaster hit one pole
North of me about a year ago and snapped it off...the lines never
came DOWN, they braced it up with a truck and then replaced it with
a new pole. I know zero about Transmission lines but I did notice
that the new pole and crossarms were different...so the ice and wind
must have been the first real test of their work, and it needed a
bit of refinement.<br>
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I could see they put some kind of flashing devices up on the
insulators at several locations, one on each phase, I asked them
what they were and they said they were an indicator that showed them
the trouble was further down the line from where the device was.<br>
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The wires that were arcing were what hook right into my transformer,
friend in GA said his like that were 12kv and they came through and
upgraded it all to 14kv (I do not recall exact numbers) to get more
throughput.<br>
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Bill<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/2015 07:46 PM, Alex Fraser
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William Danielson wrote on 12/28/2015 1:43 PM:
<blockquote type="cite">We had some freezing rain today in
43543, and some wind. I had a few power blips....most stuff
would stay on but computers shut off. I caught something out
the front window out of the corner of my eye, and opened the
door and HOLY COW :-). <br>
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The power lines in front of the house were arcing phase to
phase, would start on the right and move to the left, 8-10
FEET of arc....big shower of reddish orange sparks would
cascade into the field across the street. <br>
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The Village lineman pulled in the drive and had seen it from
town, shut things off and went up and put up a new insulator
and moved one wire away from the others some. <br>
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Got lucky and managed to snap a half asterisk picture through
the glass of the storm door.....picture does not remotely do
it justice. <br>
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