DAY 1

• Welcoming Introductions, Background Information
• Definition of Power Line Interference 
• IEEE P1897 Recommended Practice/Standard, Introduction to
• Causes of Power Line Interference, Transmission & Distribution
  
  • What Causes Power Line Sparking
  • How Sparking Is Transmitted: Conduction, Induction and Radiation
  • External Sources and How Weather Affects Them
  • Electric Field and Noise Propagation
• Identifying the Source Causing the Complaints from:
  
  • Hams, Broadcast Radio & TV, FAA
• Methods of Detection: Audio, VHF, UHF, and Ultrasonic 
  
  • Frequency Range of Sparking Noise Interference
• Locating Power Line Interference
  
  • Common Sparking Sources
  • Locating Only the Specific Cause of the Customer’s RFI
  • Techniques & Equipment Demonstrations
    What to use and when to use it

DAY 2

• Introduction to the Customer/Complainant 
  
  • The First and Most Important Step to Solving the Complaint 
  • All the Right Questions & All the Right Moves
• Correction of Power line Interference
  
  • Repairing only the source causing the complaint 
  • Correction and Prevention of Poor Hardware Connections
• Non-Power Line Sources 
  
  • How to Locate the Home Containing the Source
  • How to Locate Internal Sources
  • Common Sources
  • Safety in Handling Non-Power Line Noise Sources 
  • Tailgate and Field Exercise
• Locating Power Line Interference Sources from the Field

Evaluation