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Originally Posted by boroda1
I am thinking of those power lines south of my house, do they give me weird results? When i got the best signal on SF95, dish alignment vent off completely, took hours to bring it back. Power lines? |
I don't think a normal power line will affect anything. One of the sats I used to look at a lot before the shift to digital is right in line with a power line transformer, which I thought might give me problems, but it never did.
However, a few years ago, there was a lot of talk about sending video and data and stuff over power lines, ie something like cable without a cable. I don't know if that system ever came to pass anywhere (not here), but I remember the HAM community was kind of upset about the potential rf interferrence that would result from this.
Also, it is quite common for power lines transformers to go beserk and emit all sorts of RF. HAMs used to (probably still do, but I don't keep up with that stuff anymore) drive around finding the source of RF interferrence, and when they'd find the offending transformer, report it to the power company. So maybe you have a bad transformer nearby?