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Originally Posted by 1captain
Not going to be a probem with power lines Vitruvius have put maney under or looking tru em, an no problems with signal. but Wejones had that happen here, a power line came down right acroos the feed legs that held c&ku, an it took everthing out, even a peice of the 1-run coax, an it was a 6000 volt line, what caused it was lighting, hit it an burn it in2, an the hot side is what hit the feed legs, an even started a grass fire.
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Yeah, the "fire" thing is what got me thinking about what would happen if that line came down on my dish. One time during a wind storm, a tree branch came down on that power line, and stretched between the hot line and the ground. I was thinking, 'how are we going to ever get that branch down?' , but it was no problem, because the branch caught fire and burned up wile I was watching. Unfortunately, underneath the power line is just about the only place where I have much view of the arc, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Before that fire, it never really sunk in to me that I had such high voltage lines on my property. Where I lived before, the transformers were out on the street, and it was just the 120V lines coming into the house, and I used to move tree limbs off them and wasn't that concerned about them. But these high voltage things are a real issue. And it isn't uncommon for them to irradiate lots of RF at all freqs, although generally at the poles and transformers.