[HamWAN PSDR] SOLVED: Ups and Downs

[David C. Jenner]

Thanks to those who told me how to check out my radio/dish.  It was 
fine.  Problem had to be before radio or after radio.  It was after, on 
my site.  Unless you are really interested, you can stop reading now.

My dish/radio is on my pumphouse with a clear view to Buck Mtn, 800 feet 
from the shop with router in "Internet Central."  To get from pumphouse 
to shop, I choose to use an old underground telephone line that was 
installed 35 years ago, and I installed VDSL on it.  It's underground 
except for one 20-30 foot segment that crosses a driveway.  It runs a 
couple of feet away from an old, high pressure, sodium vapor "barn 
lamp."  The lamp is starting to fail (it's also probably 35 years old). 
The lamp goes on automatically during the time period I was having 
downs/ups on Buck HamWAN.

The VDSL line is zippy, running at at least 100Mbps, but is apparently 
sensitive to fluctuations in lamp as it flickers.  The telephone line is 
twisted pair and it's shielded, but apparently not up to the noise 
created nearby by the lamp.

I've been meaning to replace that lamp for some time now, and I need to 
bury the last segment of the telephone line.

73,
Dave
K7DCJ



On 5/11/20 10:09 AM, David Jenner via PSDR wrote:
> My connection (K7DCJ-Buck) has been down for a few minutes a couple of dozen times in the last two days.  Is the source of this known, or is it at my place?
> 
> 73,
> Dave
> K7DCJ
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