Richard Dale writes in a message to Jonathan Guy
  
 RD> Can power lines re-radiate that kind of  interference?
  
Pssible, but not likely - the "element" is too long to mess with frequencies 
much above the broadcast and shortwave bands.
  
  
Sounds like you have plain old overload of the RF and first mixer stages.
 
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