>Well that's what the power company is going to do. Many problems like
>this are due to something coming loose mechanically on the pole. Jarring
>it is the way they pin it down. This *is* best left to professionals,
An employee of our power company (Tucson Electric Power) is employed to track
down power line interference by using radio direction finding equipment. He has a variety of radios in his truck, as well as a hand-held yagi (that looks as if
it's cut for around 450 MHz). He is getting to be really good at this, and has
recently helped me out by getting some ten or so poles in my neighborhood
repaired. No more noise!
The point of all this is that taking a sledgehammer to a pole is not the only
