Telephone Co. gripes and Electric Fence Interferen

Posted by jdemaris on January 27, 2005 at 15:27:38 from (209.23.28.222):

In Reply to: Re: Telephone and Electric Fence Interference posted by Allan in NE on January 27, 2005 at 09:44:25:

Well then, here's some "unreason." My electric fence has put a clicking sound in all my phones for years. Not a hum, click - click - click. Get a click in the phones every time the fence charger fires. All I have to do is turn the fence off and the noise stops. This noise occurs in every phone in the house, hard-wired or cordless (not my cell phone, however). I also have underground phone lines that run through my property and serve a bunch of houses and farms way out yonder somewhere. I have NO neighbors within 1/2 a mile, so there's no one to complain about the situation except for my wife and herd of goats. Actually the goats are more unhappy about the electric fence, they don't give a darn about the phone clicking.
I suspect the problem is one of grounding, but I'm not sure. I do know that the clicking gets worse at certain times of the year. I also know, that if the fence is perfect - i.e. no grass, branches, or snow touching it anywhere, and the ground is damp where the ground-rods are, the clicking gets very faint, sometimes it goes away. But, my fence is almost never perfect.
No problem now, because the snow is deeper than my goats' legs are long - so they can't run away anywhere. Thus, my fence is off until a thaw comes.
I had several phone guys come here, and I was kind of amazed at how little some of the repairmen/trouble shooters knew. Had one old-timer come here who was getting ready to retire and he was a pleasure to talk to - he actually knew something. Got him to tell me how to convert some old dial phones that were for party-lines back to direct dial. Also gave me the low-down why most new phones will not work in a cold barn - or anywhere else that gets below 10 degrees F. I had called the phone company previously about it, but they are not in the "phone" business anymore. In fact, I don't know what THEY DO do anymore. I called recently trying to get them to locate the underground lines because I had my backhoe out and was digging. First they argued with me saying there WERE no lines on my property. I know there ARE because I dug them up two years ago and took out every phone on the mountain. They then told me that if I knowingly/intentionally dig up the lines I could be in violation of the law. What law, I don't know. It's my property, I informed them, Chri*t! What else am I supposed to do? Finally, they had some outfit call me - called DIG NEW YORK. Come to find out that #1, the phone company - Verizon, has some other company decide if lines are here or not. Then, #2, if the first company decides there is a risk, yet another company gets involved, and comes here to locate the lines. After many phone calls, I told the phone company I'm going out to dig, and if you don't like it - try to arrest me. Some guy finally showed up - nice person. He told me his company (not Verizon) has had many such problems doing work for the phone company, i.e. I was not the first.

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