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Subject: BROADBAND RF NOISE
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 16:12:39 EST
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Howard --

Sounds like a leaky underground power transformer; and 
the lamppost is probably acting as an "RF probe" - extending
down to/connected closer to the source. That's why it's louder
when you get near it.

Call the electric company. They like to know when their xfmrs
are leaking. It means lost $$$ down the drain (or up in the
air - as the case may be). I know, in my neighborhood when one
of the pole transformers are leaking, it wipes out the AM band
on up.

It might be something else, but a transformer sounds likely.

73,


George
W1TQS/4