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Fence for cattle

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vchimpanzee

About 15 miles from my favorite AM station, I pass a small cattle farm with a fence that has what looks like a bunch of yellow champagne corks.

The radio makes a click, click, click noise as I pass.
 
"Electric Fence" is pretty common in the rural areas. Usually it makes no noise on AM, but if the fence has a spot where the electrical charge is jumping to ground, it creates a spark, which will produce that sound. Don't touch the stuff in an attempt to fix it...you'll 'let loose when ya grab hold of the juice'...
 
Yep. Hams hate the things,a faulty one can kick wideband noise out for a couple of miles.

I had a Hallicrafters S-120 I used to hook up to a regular barbed wire fence when I was a kid. Non-directional but it worked pretty well for decent dx in the era of dawn to dusk AM.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
"Electric Fence" is pretty common in the rural areas. Usually it makes no noise on AM, but if the fence has a spot where the electrical charge is jumping to ground, it creates a spark, which will produce that sound. Don't touch the stuff in an attempt to fix it...you'll 'let loose when ya grab hold of the juice'...
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Well, it only lasts five seconds or so. And it's not my fence to fix.

I heard the same noise going to the beach when going under a transmission line. Usually that causes a constant buzzing, though.
 
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