No, really, it is you:
Apologies for the rough nature of the video. I plan to make up something a lot nicer aimed at a wider audience. I just put this together over the last couple days to demonstrate, again, where this noise is coming from (I’ve performed this same triangulation many, many times over the last few years.)
In an effort to better track the noise, back in 2024 I wrote some custom monitoring software which cross-correlates the audio from 3.540 MHz with 120pps noise and charts it relative to the noise floor once per minute, 24×7.
The video begins on the evening of March 26, 2026, when the monitoring chart showed a strong 120pps noise. I then set out to a nearby trail with a clear view of the substation with my 70cm Yagi and HT set to 440 MHz, AM mode. I chose two locations near the creek and recorded myself looking for the strongest “buzz” from the HT. I tried to find the strongest buzz from each of these two locations, and did a circle to verify that the signal was not actually coming from behind me or from a side lobe. (Hopefully nobody gets dizzy watching that part.)
It’s not enough to only look when there’s known to be an active noise source, however. It’s also necessary to check that when the monitor is showing no noise that observation with the directional antenna also shows no noise. So early this morning, while the chart showed no noise had started up yet, I set out again, and this is the final location clip in the video. I didn’t bother checking both locations, because there was no noise received (so there’d be nothing to triangulate).
PG&E has been playing games in recent weeks, specifically Occam’s Knife Game, in which they’re stabbing around, trying to blame everything they can possibly dream up except the obvious, glaring answer, which is the same answer it has been for the last two years. It’s not somebody’s solar panels down the street (it happens at night too). It’s not spurious emissions from a cable TV amplifier (the wrong kind of noise entirely). It’s exactly what it appears to be at face value, and exactly the source that PG&E’s own technicians found in March of 2025. Everyone can see it with their own eyes.