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Re: Clicking in Phone Line From Electric Fence

Tony P. (kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net)
Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:18:25 -0400

In article <telecom23.518.4@telecom-digest.org>, spammers@are.bad.com
says:

> Hi,

> Got a weird problem that I'm looking for a possible resolution
> to. There is a fairly large farm with about a mile of electric fence
> around the cattle area, with a pulsing electric fence. Apparently
> this is a heavy duty pulser and is able to power 100 miles of fence.

> Now ... about 500 feet - 1000 feet from the field where the
> electric fence is a youth camp. On the camp is the office telephones,
> caretaker, and a program director.

> The phone line for the caretaker and ONE of the two office
> lines experience a continual hum as well as a click, click, click,
> click, click, every time the electric fence fires off. The program
> director does not experience any known issue on his line, and the
> other line in the office is fine. I find this very odd, since both of
> the office lines come in (presumably) on the same cable?

> Any thoughts? Verizon is kinda stumped on this issue, so I'm
> trying to see if I can figure anything out to help them out. Does
> this sound like a grounding issue? If so is it at the demarc box? Or
> on a line some place? Why only one phone line and not the other?

> As another side note, the electric fence runs about 500 - 600
> feet beside the road, which is also where the telephone/electric poles
> run (same side of the road).

Grounding is probably an issue here. An 8' copper spike driven into
the ground and then bonded to every phone instrument would probably do
the trick.

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